Libraries Face the Challenge of Archiving Digital Material

Libraries Face the Challenge of Archiving Digital Material

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“Libraries Face the Challenge of Archiving Digital Material” by IEEE Computer Society is a podcast about how libraries are facing the problems that are presented by the modern day digital material. This podcast is used to introduce the ongoing problems of preserving printed and digital materials that libraries face. It goes into how digital material owned by libraries is being converted or transitioning printed materials into digital copies and how to preserve those copies from degradation. Libraries have faced the problem of preservation of printed materials before. Now, libraries are facing the challenge of preserving digital materials. Digital materials in terms of videos, recordings, artwork and more. The libraries now have to look into preserving enormous information. The differences between written/printed material that are preserved by libraries and the digital copies that are preserved by servers. The difficulties lay in how materials are preserved and how to categories the information. This would be a good addition to the archive by way of Digital Humanities. It is the history of how libraries are dealing with the ongoing problem of preserving materials, both in printed form and digital form. It shows how libraries are facing these problems and the solution in terms of preservation of information.

IEEE Computer Society

2010-07-09

Clara Pulido, Jacquelyn Curtin, Truc Duong

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IEEE Computer Society, September 7, 2010. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/libraries-face-challenge-archiving-digital-material/id382136308?i=1000084801063.