“Wouldn't Be Prudent”: Digitization as a Preservation Reformatting Method
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Sheila A. McAlister
Members of the Society of American Archivists' Preservation Section read with interest the ARL Preservation of Research Library Materials Committee's Recognizing Digitization as a Preservation Reformatting Method. Many are actively involved in preservation reformatting and others participate in projects creating access to archival materials through digitization. While the ARL Preservation of Research Library Materials committee pushes for institutions to make both the financial and institutional commitment to digital preservation, the library and archival community at large is not at a point where large numbers of institutions can commit to such a level of stewardship for digitized objects. Actually, few libraries are able to make such a commitment, be they ARL libraries or otherwise. By encouraging institutions to think of digitization as both an access and a preservation method, the committee could unwittingly be leading smaller institutions down a path to their own digital doom. This “canonization” of digitization as a preservation method may well lead administrators to push for digitization even though their own institutions lack the expertise, infrastructure, and funding to maintain these digital objects over the long term.
© 2004 by K. G. Saur
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Impressum
- From the Editor-in-Chief
- Comment and News
- Recognizing Digitization as a Preservation Reformatting Method
- “Wouldn't Be Prudent”: Digitization as a Preservation Reformatting Method
- A Critique of “Recognizing Digitization as a Preservation Reformatting Method”
- Addressing a Risk Perspective when Considering Digitization as a Preservation Reformatting Method: A Response from “Down Under”
- Digitization as a Preservation Method – A Comment from Singapore
- Digitization as a Preservation Method – Comments from the Netherlands
- Digital Preservation in the Context of Changing Reading Behaviors and Research Methods
- It's Time to Recognize the Technologies That Are in Place
- Digitization for Preservation: Far Too Many Benefits over Microfilming
- Why the Preservation Community Should Support ARL's Call for Acceptance of Digitization as a Preservation Reformatting Method
- Evans Digital Edition
- TL-2 (Taxonomic Literature, 2nd edition) Online
- Index 2004 Microform & Imaging Review
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Impressum
- From the Editor-in-Chief
- Comment and News
- Recognizing Digitization as a Preservation Reformatting Method
- “Wouldn't Be Prudent”: Digitization as a Preservation Reformatting Method
- A Critique of “Recognizing Digitization as a Preservation Reformatting Method”
- Addressing a Risk Perspective when Considering Digitization as a Preservation Reformatting Method: A Response from “Down Under”
- Digitization as a Preservation Method – A Comment from Singapore
- Digitization as a Preservation Method – Comments from the Netherlands
- Digital Preservation in the Context of Changing Reading Behaviors and Research Methods
- It's Time to Recognize the Technologies That Are in Place
- Digitization for Preservation: Far Too Many Benefits over Microfilming
- Why the Preservation Community Should Support ARL's Call for Acceptance of Digitization as a Preservation Reformatting Method
- Evans Digital Edition
- TL-2 (Taxonomic Literature, 2nd edition) Online
- Index 2004 Microform & Imaging Review
