“Institutions have always relied on collectors to collect,” says
Lazorchak. “But people and organizations have to start collecting these
[digital objects] earlier in their lifecycle. In the past, we could wait
for a collector to collect over decades, and then acquire those
materials, because they were in a format that was still understandable.”
To help combat the loss of years of recorded material, the Library is
engaged in a variety of outreach programs, advocating for file
standardizations, staging events (like this summer’s three-day
Digital Preservation 2014 summit and accompanying
CURATEcamp “unconference” and maintaining an unofficial blog,
the Signal, as a clearinghouse for digital preservation news.
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