On March 16, 2016, in an article she posted to her Research Buzz blog (researchbuzz.me/2016/03/16/do-newspaper-archives-need-a-dead-mans-switch), Tara Calishain asks if we need a dead man's switch for newspaper archives. The dead man's switch would automatically preserve content should something dire happen to the original archive. It would be a safety mechanism, much like that used on machines from locomotives to lawnmowers. For those, the dead man's I switch applies the brakes or turns off the engines if the operator stops using the machine, presumably because something catastrophic has happened. The disappearance of news archives is also a catastrophic event.
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