Electronic Records and Digital Preservation Electronic records and digital preservation catch your fancy? If you're an archivist or historian or just plain anyone worried about the digital future, The Ten Thousand Year Blog is for you. The title is inspired by physicist and speculative fiction author Gregory Benford's Deep Time: How Humanity Communicates Across Millennia (01999). My review of this book appears in the Association of Canadian Archivists' journal Archivaria no. 52 (Fall 02001). David Mattison. If you wonder about the "0" in front of the years, see my post for 02002 11 11 about the Long Now Foundation. Monday, February 17, 2003 Library of Congress Launches Digital Format Acquisition and Preservation Program Bernie Sloan reported to the WEB4LIB list on 17 Feb 02003 that "The Library of Congress will begin a program to preserve intellectual materials that exist in digital formats, library officials announced on Friday. Such materials include music and pictures on CD's, literature and journalism in the form of e-books, and online scholarly publications." (http://chronicle.com/free/2003/02/2003021702t.htm). 7:41:00 AM    comment []  Google It! © 2003 David Mattison Last Update: 7/13/2003; 11:39:09 AM

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