On yesterday's Reason stream, I floated the idea of Nostr playing a future role in archiving historical and literary works so that we could easily track editorial "revisions" over time. I think it's important to maintain the integrity of primary sources and original works in this way in the digital age. Curious if anyone else has thought about this or has ideas about how something like that might be implemented via Nostr.
It's been on my mind for awhile but most recently with the Roald Dahl story. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/20/roald-dahl-books-rewrites-criticism-language-altered
It would be interesting to maybe use something like IPFS to upload the entire contents of a book, and then use nostr to “register” the book.
The cool thing with IPFS is you can never edit the content. One would have to post an “update” note with a link to the new IPFS address, which gives you editorial revisions for free.
I like that idea. I appreciate that the Internet Archive is trying to build this kind of resilience by implementing IPFS, but what I really like is the "updating" aspect that you're suggesting here.
Agreed. I'm not sure noster is the solution for 'source control' of the content itself... but to register versions it may be a good resource. I also think you'd need some sort of witness verification system to cloud source and expert source check versions to ensure they have not been edited prior to the first internet version (which you may be able to use nostr for). Sort of like a manual Bitcoin 'proof of work' validation of that version on a blockchain, with multiple sources on multiple dimensions all saying ' this is Fahrenheit 451 v 1.0 (c) 1953 by Ray Bradbury in English published by Ballentine' yadda yadda. The noster post could carry those attributes, and subsequent posts could validate it.
