How long will it last?

An Anonymous Patron writes “How long will it last? T. Scott Plutchak says major reports are printed and filed, so they will still be preserved. But there is no paper trail of memos and daily communications and meeting minutes—the sorts of things that lay out the discussions, wrong turns, deliberations, and compromises that are the substance of what is palely reflected in final reports.
Archivists are now beginning to develop systems intended to effectively address this problem.

The problem can be simply stated: in the print world, the best way to preserve something was to do nothing; in the digital world, preservation requires that we do something. But what that something is, we are struggling mightily to invent.”

November 3, 2004 by Uncategorized 0

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