tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8137713.post110616290141721623..comments2024-03-19T16:26:45.863-04:00Comments on Digitization 101: Lesson learned: Is digitization preservation?Jill Hurst-Wahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16355882159165026398noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8137713.post-1106577969634339262005-01-24T09:46:00.000-05:002005-01-24T09:46:00.000-05:00As you've clearly discovered, preservation means a...As you've clearly discovered, preservation means a lot of very different things to a lot of people (we won't get into the meaning of "archives" in this post-IT Department era...8-}...).<br /><br />Preservation of content is certainly a primary concern. So is preservation of format. But I suspect that the culprit of misunderstanding is the very demon that makes this all possible: do we truly need another example of late 20th century trade binding or newspaper printing technology? Yes, someone needs to make a decision to "save" an example, but I think you may have placed too much emphasis on the preservation of form here and the implication that content must be preserved in all formats. I'm thinking of all those family Bibles out there whose printed content requires no further consideration, but all those annotations, insertions, marginalia, and provenance make them incredibly valuable.<br /><br />From an archivist's perspective, every item is unique, and therefore worthy of preservation. But is it the item's format or content that creates the significance? I'll skip the item's context for now, but that should also enter in to the deliberations...Dennis Moserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11610397896859385842noreply@blogger.com