Thursday, January 14, 2010

"The Preservation of Born-Digital Literary Archives" by Ben Goldman

Excerpt:

"What becomes apparent after reviewing the literature on digital preservation and personal archives is not that we lack the technical processes or expertise to maintain the growing universe of digital documents, but that doing so: a) requires far more advanced skills than are currently possessed by many practicing archivists, and b) necessarily has an impact on the authenticity of a document."

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