Digital heritage for the future

Authors

  • Yola Lusenet

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48798/cadernosbad.863

Abstract

This paper provides an overview of various issues related to digital preservation: the nature of digital information, the roles and responsibilities of institutions, selection of materials and choices in preservation, with many references to current initiatives. It argues that traditional concepts like publication and record have to be redefined in the digital world, in order to develop effective preservation policies. Preservation has become a matter of keeping access rather than keeping objects, for which the first requirement is defining the digital object and its essential characteristics. Documentation has moved to the centre of preservation activities, which now have to take place quite early in the lifecycle of materials.

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Author Biography

Yola Lusenet

Secretária executiva da European Commission on Preservation and Access (ECPA), uma fundação independente criada em 1994 com a missão de promover a preservação do património intelectual. É também directora do departamento de publicações da Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, em Amesterdão, instituição que acolhe a ECPA. Anteriormente à sua colaboração com a ECPA, trabalhou durante 10 anos na área das publicações académicas.

Published

2003-12-31

How to Cite

Lusenet, Y. (2003). Digital heritage for the future. Cadernos BAD, (2). https://doi.org/10.48798/cadernosbad.863