Principles for Digital Preservation

2004/11/24 by H. M. Gladney, Gladney, H. M.
Arts and Humanities · Computer Science · #Digital Humanities and Scholarship #Digital and Cyber Forensics #Digital and Traditional Archives Management #cs.DL

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cs/0411091

7 pages with 2b figures

arxiv created 2004/12/19 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

The immense investments in creating and disseminating digitally represented information have not been accompanied by commensurate effort to ensure the longevity of information of permanent interest. Asserted difficulties with long-term digital preservation prove to be largely underestimation of what technology can provide. We show how to clarify prominent misunderstandings and sketch a 'Trustworthy Digital Object (TDO)' method that solves all the published technical challenges.

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