Thirteen Ways of Looking at...Digital Preservation

Abstract

The question can also be posed from a different perspective: given the vast corpus of information in digital form, what information are we not going to preserve, or in other words, what information are we willing to put at risk?The underlying assumption here is that the rate at which digital information is created exceeds our ability to preserve it all, although this view is not universally held.But if preservation resources are scarce enough that choices must be made, as seems likely, then a decision to preserve a certain set of materials is synonymous with a decision not to preserve the rest.This leads into the issue of selection, which is a topic of great interest in the digital preservation community.

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