Legacy of Our Future History: 100-Year Digital Archiving
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Legacy of Our Future History: 100-Year Digital Archiving
Most new records -- business, governmental, historical, social, cultural, and academic -- are born-digital. Written records, multi-media recordings, and data collections are the intangible product of the mind's work and, for those who live by and for work of the mind, are their principal legacy. They include information critical to democratic institutions and to our well-being. They are growing to include all academic publications. The authors and the institutions that support the administrative and research infrastructure deserve assurance that the best of this will survive well into the future. We cannot today confidently assure them that it will be so. This presentation explores the obstacles to long-term preservation of digital records: institutional, legal, training, and technical and then focuses on the key technical challenge and how it can be surmounted.
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