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Topic: An interesting problem to try to solve

I refer to the following thread in the High-Logic forum.

https://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?p=10264

Alas, the web address that is cast on the sculpture no longer works.

The sculpture dates from 2008.

As web addresses are transitory, I am wondering how to solve the problem.

I am wondering if one could have a sort-of-web-style-address that means to search for this sort-of-web-style-address in the main catalogue of The British Library.

Then the scuplture could have that sort-of-web-style-address cast into it, and a PDF document with that sort-of-web-style-address inclded as part of the title could be published and a copy deposited for Legal Deposit with The British Library.

The problem is that The British Library only allows, due to the legislation, access to Legal Deposit items in its reading rooms.

Yet I suppose that there is the possibility that one could also send copies to other libraries.

Maybe one could send a second copy to The British Library as a gift and say that they can make the gifted copy open to online access.

Sort of bl://a4a or something like that.

Please discuss.

William

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Re: An interesting problem to try to solve

William wrote:

I refer to the following thread in the High-Logic forum.

https://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?p=10264

Alas, the web address that is cast on the sculpture no longer works.

As you noted way back in February 2015, the *.com address doesn’t work but the *.co.uk address still does.

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Re: An interesting problem to try to solve

Thank you.

There is a link to the following web page.

https://www.a4a.co.uk/Evesham.html

Interestingly, that circular paved area in which the sculpture stands was not constructed for the sculpture.

It was constructed some years previously.

There is reference to the exhibition.

That was held in what was at the time a commercial art gallery that was located in the Walker Hall.

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/10 … 3Kv3cfP3IU

The Walker Hall is diagonally opposite where the sculpture is located, across the market square.

The first picture in the above web page is of a side, the entrance to the Walker Hall is off the right edge of the picture. The entrance faces into the market square. There is a second picture that shows the entrance.

The path beneath the short tunnel shown in the first picture curves round to the left and then goes about a hundred yards later under the Bell Tower. and then into the public park.

For a while, before the art gallery was there, the Walker Hall housed the Public Library, as its old site was being redeveloped.

Famously, the Public Library later moved to a new building next to Oat Street, about two to three hundred yards away, and before the move the library staff asked people to go into the library and borrow books and then return them to the library after the move, so as to minimize the work needed for the move.

William