The BL have done lots of thinking in this area (as you’d hope). Caroline Brazier wrote a short paper last year on born digital material which you can get from the IFLA site: http://library.ifla.org/222/1/198-brazier-en.pdf
Michael
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On 22 Apr 2014, at 15:06, Jonathan Moffett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear All,
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> Given that Museums are in the business of holding on to physical objects (and I include archives in there) in perpetuity, how is any one coping with the online "objects and archives", such as word documents, spreadsheets, emails, images, etc, that we are generating everyday and which are just going to keep growing in number and size?
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> Does any one have a policy for what they are doing with all things digital, bearing in mind that much of today's "online objects" may only exist in a digital form?
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> I gather that some funding bodies only expect digital material to be kept for some 10 years and then it can be deleted.
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> Personally I think we should keep everything digital for ever, which is a simple thing to write, but when it comes to 80-column punch cards, or 8 inch floppy disks, or old magnetic tape reels, then that is perhaps an unrealistic attitude. And then there are the old Displaywriter files, or dbase databases, or viscalc spreadshseets.
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> Your collective thoughts/wisdom would be appreciated, as it is something that the Ashmolean (itself quite old at nearly 331 years) is now contemplating.
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> Thanks
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> Jonathan
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