Mapping the Preservation Landscape for the Twenty-First Century
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Ross Harvey
At Simmons College’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science, in Boston, MA, Mahard is a Professor of Practice, and Harvey is a visiting professor until July 1, 2013.
Abstract
Information technology has had a profound effect on the preservation landscape at the beginning of the twenty-first century, blurring the traditional boundaries separating cultural heritage institutions and demanding new skills and approaches to the management of cultural assets, whether digital or analog. Concepts around which the core principles of preservation were built have been challenged and are shifting to accommodate new practices and standards. Changes in our approach to longevity, choice, quality, integrity, and access are being driven by digital technologies. A new set of principles, applicable to all materials, whether digital or not, are proposed. In the context and aims of preservation as we understand it today, these principles are a framework for the management of our cultural heritage collections.
About the author
At Simmons College’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science, in Boston, MA, Mahard is a Professor of Practice, and Harvey is a visiting professor until July 1, 2013.
© 2013 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co.
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- Masthead 1
- From the Editor-in-Chief
- Mapping the Preservation Landscape for the Twenty-First Century
- Preserving Imperfection: Assessing the Incidence of Digital Imaging Error in HathiTrust
- Archiving Aggregates of Individually Created Digital Content: Lessons from Archiving the Occupy Movement
- A Meditation on Social Reading and Its Implications for Preservation
- Currents and Comments
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Special Feature: The Memory of the World in the Digital Age
- Masthead 1
- From the Editor-in-Chief
- Mapping the Preservation Landscape for the Twenty-First Century
- Preserving Imperfection: Assessing the Incidence of Digital Imaging Error in HathiTrust
- Archiving Aggregates of Individually Created Digital Content: Lessons from Archiving the Occupy Movement
- A Meditation on Social Reading and Its Implications for Preservation
- Currents and Comments
