The Continuing Access and Digital Preservation Strategy for the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (22 Jul 2004)

Usability Views Article Details

The Continuing Access and Digital Preservation Strategy for the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (22 Jul 2004)
There is good statistical information on the current explosive growth of digital information and clear projections for a future data deluge in areas such as scientific research. Instruments currently being built and experiments being planned now will, in a few years, generate more data than has previously been generated in the whole of human history up to this point. Not all of this information has constant and persistent value, but a significant proportion of it does.

A serious and worsening gap has developed between our ability to create digital information and our infrastructure and capacity to manage and preserve it over time. Some commentators have referred to the likely cumulative effect of this as a future 'digital dark ages'.

Article URL: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july04/beagrie/07beagrie.html

Read 50 more articles from D-Lib Magazine sorted by date, popularity, or title.

Next Article: The Role of ERPANET in Supporting Digital Curation and Preservation in Europe

Some of the people who make up the Userati group

This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy