Preservation as a Memento Mori and Matter of Ethics
Eve, Martin Paul (2024) Preservation as a Memento Mori and Matter of Ethics. eve.gd ,
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Abstract
Digital preservation is crucial to ensuring the decadal- and centuries-long accessibility of scholarship. In other words, it asks us to consider how the conversation around a piece of work will continue, beyond the lifespan of its creator. It asks us to consider that point when a work enters the public domain and is no longer under the author’s copyright, it asks us to consider a purpose for scholarship that is greater than self-advancement. Digital preservation is a memento mori in the scholarly world – our own anamorphic skull – that assumes the oblivion of the individual and the continuity of the artefact. Perhaps that is why so few people want to look it in the face.
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| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication |
| Depositing User: | Martin Eve |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Feb 2024 15:18 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Feb 2024 15:18 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/53172 |
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