Charleston Conference: Digital Preservation

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? New Models for Preserving Electronic Scholarship
Eileen Fenton, Daviess Menefee, Els van Eijck van Heslinga, Elizabeth Dulabahn
Friday, November 7, 2008 - Concurrent Session 3, 4:30-5:15pm

Here are the highlights as they struck me:

• digital preservation is NOT: reformatting print to digital; byte storage without regard to ongoing usability
• it IS: long-term discoverable; authenticity; useful; accessible
• issues: who should be involved; how to organize/distribute; trust; challenges
• digital preservation is an expression of intent more than a promise or plan
• during Q&A, audience member referenced current challenge of needing to print out digital objects to scan paper copy for later preservation instead of migrating current e-file (if accurate then quite frustrating/wasteful/time-consuming...)