** Apologies for cross posting **
DigitalPreservationEurope is pleased to announce the release of the second
in a series of thought provoking and controversial position papers on a
range of issues surrounding digital preservation, ‘So Where is the Black
Hole in our Collective Memory?’. It is our intention that these papers
will promote vigorous debate within the digital preservation community and
encourage people to think about digital preservation in new and innovative
ways by exploring and challenging the received wisdom.
Harvey's position paper asks important questions: Have the digital
preservation community cried wolf too often? Are our strident, alarmist
proclamations about the loss of digital materials too extreme? He argues
that our inability to bring evidence to bear in support of such claims
leave us exposed and easily overlooked.
You can comment on this paper and the issues it raises by joining the
debate in the DPE forum by visiting:
http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu/forum/phpBB2/
you can also access the position paper by visiting:
http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu/publications/position/Ross_Harvey_b
lack_hole_PPP.pdf
Thanks,
Emily Witham
HATII Preservation Resources Officer
Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII)
http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu
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