Friday, February 4, 2011

Digitization for Preservation vs. Digital Preservation

From Paul Conway's "Preservation in the Age of Google" (The Library Quarterly, vol. 80, no. 1, pp. 61–79). I want to remember this:


When approaching the dilemmas of the cultural heritage preservation community in the context of digital technologies, it is important to establish clear distinctions between the terms “digitization for preservation” and “digital preservation.” Digitization for preservation creates valuable new digital products, whereas digital preservation protects the value of those products, regardless of whether the original source is a tangible artifact or data that were born and live digitally. Digitization for preservation and digital preservation are intimately related, but the underlying standards, processes, technologies, costs, and organizational challenges are quite distinct. (64-65)

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