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As a society we should have been thinking more about digital preservation since the time we started eschewing archiving hard copies in paper. People who don't
by elzbardico 3y ago
As a society we should have been thinking more about digital preservation since the time we started eschewing archiving hard copies in paper.
People who don't know history are doomed to repeat it, but how can our future generations learn from our mistakes if all our documents are unreadable or lost by their time?
- zokier 3y agoAre you just casually dismissing all the work that digital archivists have done over the past couple of decades? https://www.loc.gov/librarians/standards https://www.loc.gov/librarians/standards https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/ https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/ https://www.loc.gov/programs/digital-collections-management/about-this-program/ https://www.loc.gov/programs/digital-collections-management/... and that's just Library of Congress, they are hardly alone in this field