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.
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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