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Category Archives: preservation


ICTs - losing our history before it’s made

15 July, 2008 – 1:13 pm

I have every letter that I have ever received. True. They live in a few big plastic storage containers under my bed - written on paper, by hand, or on typewriter. A few typed on a word processor and printed out and sent via snail mail. Letters from the time that Susan Campbell moved away […]

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Life and death of digital resources

27 September, 2007 – 9:09 am

Preservation and archiving of digital resources is a major challenge for all organisations. The University College London and the British Library have undertaken some interesting research on the cost of preserving particular kinds of digital resources in a project called LIFE. The project has formulated a way of calculating the costs of the digital lifecycle […]

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