Posted for Wednesday 24 March 2010
Ria Groenewald's work on digital preservation rang true for all we are currently doing. One of the authors she quotes states that we are living in a "digital dark ages" and that there are new "barbarians at the gate." We as librarians are, according to the author quoted, much as the monks of the Dark Ages who preserved the knowledge which was being lost. Digital information is ephemeral and it is up to librarians to preserve and make public that which is created digitally. Some of the risks for documents which are digitally created are the following:
1. Hard Drive Failure
2. URL Error - broken links
3. Storage Medium failure
4. Loss of information/ data
5. Human Error and memory
6. Hackers
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The library of congress has an excellent site on this topic, lots of interesting articles:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.digitalpreservation.gov/