http://openculture.collectionstrustblogs.org.uk/2009/07/22/getting-to-grips-with-digital-preservation/ Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:43:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://openculture.collectionstrustblogs.org.uk/2009/07/22/getting-to-grips-with-digital-preservation/#comment-3875 Digital Innovation? « Around the World in 80 Gigabytes Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:52:21 +0000 http://openculture.collectionstrustblogs.org.uk/?p=118#comment-3875 [...] August 2009 by 80gb Stumbled across this (anonymous – I have my theories!) posting, Getting to Grips with Digital Preservation, on the Collections Trust’s OpenCulture blog, and the point about abandoning the phrase [...] [...] August 2009 by 80gb Stumbled across this (anonymous – I have my theories!) posting, Getting to Grips with Digital Preservation, on the Collections Trust’s OpenCulture blog, and the point about abandoning the phrase [...]

]]> http://openculture.collectionstrustblogs.org.uk/2009/07/22/getting-to-grips-with-digital-preservation/#comment-3848 Chris Rusbridge Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:58:13 +0000 http://openculture.collectionstrustblogs.org.uk/?p=118#comment-3848 I quite like your phrase ’sustainability is a by-product of success’; I think you are mostly referring to the organisation doing the "preserving", but I suspect it applies at a digital asset level as well. Assets that are frequently used will never fall into obsolescence. Books that are widely read get re-printed, new editions etc. Books that were hardly sold and not read are much more likely to be lost. The same applies in the digital world, I think. I quite like your phrase ’sustainability is a by-product of success’; I think you are mostly referring to the organisation doing the “preserving”, but I suspect it applies at a digital asset level as well. Assets that are frequently used will never fall into obsolescence. Books that are widely read get re-printed, new editions etc. Books that were hardly sold and not read are much more likely to be lost. The same applies in the digital world, I think.

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