Impermanence, Selection and Digital Stewardship « The Signal: Digital Preservation Selection–what to keep, how to keep it, and how long to keep it–quickly comes up in connection with stewardship of digital content. Consider two prevalent concepts at opposite extremes. One holds that we are failing to save enough digital content, a position taken in a recent article in the Economist, History flushed: The digital age promised vast libraries, but they remain incomplete.<http://www.economist.com/node/21553410>The other concept, perhaps in reaction to the first, is that organizations need to save every scrap of data because it’s impossible to predict what will have value down the road. David Rosenthal explores this idea in Lets Just Keep Everything Forever In The Cloud. <http://blog.dshr.org/2012/05/lets-just-keep-everything-forever-in.html> http://1.usa.gov/JhAFwv Source: http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/05/impermanence-and-digital-preservation/ See if people are clicking on this link: http://1.usa.gov/JhAFwv+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar -- Peter Kurilecz CRM CA [log in to unmask] Richmond, Va http://twitter.com/RAINbyte http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RAINbyte/ http://paper.li/RAINbyte/rainbyte http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/archives/ http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/records-management/ Information not relevant for my reply has been deleted to reduce the electronic footprint and to save the sanity of digest subscribers List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. mailto:[log in to unmask]
