A Tale of Two Undergraduate Majors - Taking Another Look at Digital Preservation

A Free Tip Sheet to Help You Capitalize On the Value of Digital Preservation

In the pre-digital era at AIIM, microfilm did a pretty good job of taking care of both the short-term information management needs of many organizations (better, faster, cheaper, easier to manage than paper) and their long-term information preservation needs (eye-readable for more than 500 years).

But the two objectives – management and preservation -- got separated along the digital journey. And in the process, long-term preservation of digital assets took a back seat to their short-term utilization and optimization in business processes.

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The net-net of this is that we’ve tended to adopt an image of digital preservation as something frozen in time and inaccessible and hidden away in the less-traveled parts of the organization. I’ve been struck by recent conversations that view digital preservation as something different, and frankly, more alive

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