Two other events, from
my work in newspaper,
sparked my interest in
the subject of preservation. In 2000, one of
my jobs was to assist in
publishing legal notices. It interests me to
see the newspaper’s
legal requirements to
make notices archiveable, assessable, verifiable and reproducible. I
have inferred that these
criteria were developed
to ensure the legals’
have proper reference
in the future. The other
event occurred during
a conversation with the
director of the histori-
cal room at our local
library. We discussed
the way in which the
library archives PDFs
of newly published
papers. I mentioned to
him that while I worked
in the online department, I saw numerous
articles published to the
newspaper’s blog that
were not reproduced in
the print edition. When
I asked him if those
stories were preserved
at the library, he said,
“No.” Since then I’ve
begun my journey to
learn more. I’ve joined
the Library of Congress
Digital
Preservation
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Outreach and Education
Program and participated in the email conversations.
Readers
in Europe can lookup
Digital
Preservation
Europe.
Many of the preservation techniques suggested by these programs
are
rather
advanced; but we may
do simple things that
can make sure e-books,
digital magazines and
papers survive longer.