The New Zealand Herald has a nice Look At Graham Coe, the director of digital innovations services at the National Library, and the man charged with preserving the nation’s electronic information heritage – saving and protecting the flood of cyber-content being created.
“Future generations are not going to thank us if they refer to this part of our history as the digital dark ages,” he says.
The explosion of digital information where every schoolchild is now a content creator has rocked the traditionally conservative and controlled approach to cataloguing material, bringing with it what Coe describes as “information anarchy”.
He says libraries around the world are struggling to cope with a “tidal wave of content” and New Zealand has “high mana” internationally for finding solutions to this challenge.
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