The Infinite Archive

Here’s An IEEE Spectrum Piece on Librarians and computer scientists from Cambridge, Mass., to, yes, Alexandria, Egypt, are working together to make the ephemeral permanent. Key projects include the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Dspace digital asset management system, which aims to create an institutional repository that will include digitized versions of lecture notes, videos, papers, and data sets—in short, everything produced by faculty and staff. Another is the U.S. Library of Congress’ US $100 million National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), which is developing a standard way for institutions to preserve their digital archives. And in San Francisco, independent digital librarian Brewster Kahle is attempting to preserve the content of the Web on his Internet Archive

January 15, 2004 by Uncategorized 0

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