Digital amnesia and eBabel threat at National Archives

David Rothman writes “If you doubt the need for the OpenReader, a universal format in development for digital publications and documents, check out the The Fading Memory of State in the July issue of MIT’s Technology Review. Talk about the Tower of eBabel! Discussing the National Archives and Records Administration, David Talbot warns of the challenge of preserving born-digital records–and discusses the format mess, among other things. More at TeleRead. Also in the OpenReader Department, see Prof. Terje Hillesund‘s new paper, OpenReader, Critical Text Editions and Digital Libraries. He concludes: “OpenReader will have its greatest potential with digital libraries keeping collections of literary works.” The OpenReader Consortium will cherish standards-setting and other forms of participation by librarians and archivists, among others. E-mail us if interested.”

June 15, 2005 by Uncategorized 0

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