Digital archiving in the 21st century

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NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF AUSTRALIA. Digital archiving in the 21 st century. National archives of Australia, September 2006. Text accessible : http://www.caara.org.au/Publications/DigitalArchiving21C.pdf

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Tiltle : Digital archiving in the 21st century
Creator :National archives of Australia
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Publisher : National archives of Australia
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Date : 2006-09
Type : Text
Format : PDF
Identifier :http://www.caara.org.au/Publications/DigitalArchiving21C.pdf

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Language : En
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Rights : © Commonwealth of Australia 2006

"In the 21st century the overwhelming majority of newly created information is digital. The digital collections of collecting institutions such as archives, libraries and museums consist of either digitised or ‘born digital’ content (see the definitions in Attachment 3, ‘The business of archives’). The belief that digital objects can be managed with the same methodologies developed over the years for physical objects is misconstrued. While digital objects are easier to copy, transfer and re-package, they present new risks and challenges, and are not inherently easier to preserve, or give access to, over the long term.
Digital objects are difficult to preserve and manage over the long term. Users expect access to collection content to be delivered online and are inclined to ignore collections that are not available online in digital form. Without urgent coordinated action across the cultural collecting domain, Australian cultural content is at risk of either not surviving and/or being marginalised. Designing and implementing regimes for selecting, creating, acquiring, describing and delivering access to digital collections requires a complete reinvention of systems, approaches and practices in collecting institutions." [extract]