Efforts to archive a large amount of digital material are being developed by many cultural
heritage institutions. We have evidence of this in the numerous initiatives aiming to harvest …

The problems of curating digital archaeological data sometimes tend to be overlooked in
considerations of the archaeological archives crisis (eg, Merriman and Swain 1999) …

Digital information is created easily by a wide range of electronic devices. But, it is
surprisingly difficult to preserve digital information over a long period, because both …

Long-term digital preservation, the process of maintaining digital objects through time to
ensure continued access, has become a crucial issue in recent years. The amount and the …

What Does It Mean to Preserve Digital Objects? The preservation of digital objects involves
a variety of chal-lenges, including policy questions, institutional roles and relationships …

The Royal Library in The Hague has been a leader in developing and exploring approaches
to long-term preservation of digital objects. Libri invited its distinguished Board Member …

A considerable amount of creative, cultural, and research output is expressed in digital form.
It is imperative that the memory sector rapidly improve its capability and capacity for …

Digital information and hence the need to preserve that information has been with us for
many decades. The knowledge and the further development of handling and storing digital …

Digital preservation systems and practices are rooted in research and development efforts
from the late 1990s and early 2000s when the cultural heritage sector started to tackle these …

There is growing recognition of the need to address the fragility of digital information, on
which our society heavily depends for smooth operation in all aspects of daily life. This has …