Eve, Martin Paul (2024) History and Digital Preservation. eve.gd ,
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Abstract
This week, over Christmas 2024, I have read two pieces about digital preservation: Ian Milligan’s Averting the Digital Dark Age and Ageh et al.’s “The Preservation of Knowledge in the Digital Age” for Arcadia. It is, in truth, fairly difficult to reconcile these two accounts of the state of digital preservation. Milligan opts for the bold, but he hopes not hubristic, “The digital dark age was largely averted by 2001, at least in terms of the most apocalyptic predictions made only a half-decade earlier”. Meanwhile, Ageh’s report opts for the more pessimistic “We conclude that knowledge will almost certainly be lost unless new robust and intentional arrangements are put in place to preserve and provide future access to electronic literature”. So which is it?
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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: | 28 Dec 2024 11:22 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Dec 2024 11:22 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/54750 |
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