The Future of the Past
Title
The Future of the Past
Subject
Archives
Description
In Part II of The Future of the Past, Alexander Stiille discusses cultural memory as it relates to the National Archive and the process of digitizing and converting nontextual material to a more stable format. Stille states that, at current staff levels, it would take 120 years to transfer nontextual material to more stable digital formats. Using this example, he thus elucidates a problem pinpointed by many scholars of digital archives: eventually, information abundance starts to feel overwhelming. Furthermore, with information glut comes questions of authority and vetting processes: who is creating and controlling cultural memories?
Creator
Stille, Alexander
Publisher
Picador
Date
2003
Contributor
Sara Raffel
Type
Book
Identifier
ISBN-13: 978-0312420949
Bibliographic Citation
Stille, Alexander. The Future of the Past. New York: Picador, 2003.
Files
Collection
Citation
Stille, Alexander, “The Future of the Past,” Digital Archiving Resources, accessed May 12, 2024, https://dar.cah.ucf.edu/items/show/285.