4 ms·

Kind of crazy to think that so many archives and collections likely don’t have all of their items scanned and digitally preserved. Sad to think of all the works

• qingcharles 1y ago
  Well, that's a very depressing list.
  • deleted 1y ago
    [deleted]
• AceJohnny2 1y ago
  "digital preservation"... isn't. What file format? What storage medium? Good archives are all about the long, very long term. Sometimes the "we're borrowing it from our ((great-)grand)children" long term. The storage mediums we plebeians use in our daily activities are absolutely not archival-quality. Stories abound of institutions struggling to access old numeric archives. Here's just one off of the top of my head: https://www.nsa.gov/Press-Room/Press-Releases-Statements/Press-Release-View/Article/3884041/nsa-releases-copy-of-internal-lecture-delivered-by-computing-giant-rear-adm-gra/ https://www.nsa.gov/Press-Room/Press-Releases-Statements/Pre... The other aspect is that archivists are routinely underfunded. The scanning equipment and storage systems are expensive. The archivists need to be trained to use them. As something that is by nature rarely used, it routinely gets the budgetary short straw.
  • throw0101a 1y ago
    > What file format? What storage medium? TIFF. Whatever is current… and then copy to whatever comes along next. If the only copy you have is analog, then that's a single point of failure. With digital it allows you to have multiples copies and for remote people to view things as well.
• deleted 1y ago
  [deleted]