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Preserving Digital Information: A Review 1 The final report of the Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information follows its draft report by about nine months and the establishment of the group by about eighteen months. During that time there was considerable change in the conceptual framework developed within the group which is now evident in its final report. Initially they were charged with framing the key organiza- tional, technological, legal, and economic issues associated with adopting a strategy of "technology refreshing" for continued access to "electronie digital records." In the end they redefined technology refreshing as "migration" and paid very little attention to records at all, focusing on information as reflected in the title oft,heir report. Their contribution is a major landmark because of who the group was, and will probably help set an agenda for the political and organizational model for digital archives as under- stood by the library community. This could have a mix of good and bad consequences as discussed below, but regardless of how the agenda is or is not realized, the report seems to me to have succeeded in introducing, then failed to advance, the discussion of the intellectual construct of migration which
Archives and Museum Informatics – Springer Journals
Published: Jun 1, 1996
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