EUROPEAN INITIATIVE SEEKS TO PRESERVE OBSOLETE DIGITAL WRITTEN WORKS
March 1st, 2009
BY MARK ROWE
AS book reading online enters the mainstream, one question that has plagued academic and cultural journals for years has re-emerged: digital obsolescence. Publishers are concerned about keeping pace with technological advances and preserving access to digital material.
No sooner, and at significant expense, is literature scanned and digitally secured in a given format, than it risks being overtaken by the latest storage versions. The latest data show that the National Archives in the UK holds the equivalent of 580,000 encyclopaedias of information ...
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