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    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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