Hello Jonathan,
The Archive and Records Mgmt professions have been grappling with this for
a few years now. We have come up with procedures and processes for this
issue. I would suggest contacting an archivist or records manager in your
area. I know that Oxford has a number of archivists -
http://www.oxfordarchives.org.uk/.
For those of you not based in Oxford there are a number of websites
available:
http://www.dpconline.org/
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/information-management/projects-and-work/digital-preservation.htm
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=DIGITAL-PRESERVATION
http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/stratpolprog/collectioncare/discovermore/digitalpreservation/
to name but a few.
Best wishes
Tracy Wilkinson
Archivist
St John's College, Cambridge
On 22 April 2014 15:06, Jonathan Moffett
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> Dear All,
>
> 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?
>
> 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?
>
> I gather that some funding bodies only expect digital material to be kept
> for some 10 years and then it can be deleted.
>
> 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.
>
> Your collective thoughts/wisdom would be appreciated, as it is something
> that the Ashmolean (itself quite old at nearly 331 years) is now
> contemplating.
>
> Thanks
>
> Jonathan
>
>
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> Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology
> University of Oxford
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