Excuse Me. Some Digital Preservation Fallacies?
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I have been asked to write an article for the tenth anniversary of
Ariadne, a venture that I have enjoyed, off and on, since its inception in 1996 as part of the eLib Programme, of which I was then Programme Director.
Some years ago I wrote an article entitled “After eLib” [1] for
Ariadne. The original suggestion was for a follow-up “even more after eLib”; however, I now work for JISC, and that probably makes it hard to be objective!
In “After eLib”, I wrote this paragraph about digital preservation:
“Back to the Electronic Libraries Programme, what were some of my favourite projects (I won’t say best; this is definitely a subjective list)? The project of greatest personal satisfaction for me is CEDARS [2], the digital preservation project. Ensuring the long-term existence of digital materials was not an element of the Follett report, and this seemed a significant gap when I started thinking a
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