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The oxymoron of digital preservation
This story is making it around the interwebs/twitterverse today. Brainpicker, a wonderful blog, posted a story today about digital preservation in the film industry — “The future for digital storage is constant migration.”. While focusing on independent filmmakers and nonprofit archives, it’s worthwhile to do a find-and-replace “film” with “government documents” and “filmmakers” with “government information (nee documents) librarians.” Digital preservation takes collaboration and long-term vision. period!
[HT to Brainpicker!]
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