Saving Our Digital Heritage

摘要

The digital preservation era is on us. We have to act today so we will be certain that important information being developed now will not be lost for future generations. Our digital information has become a growing concern for many information management professionals. Having access to what others have researched and learned has become a great deal easier to do, but the problem of keeping this information around for generations to come is now becoming a key question that must be addressed. Digital information is exploding. We see it being used for research, scientific, business, industrial, personal, and entertainment purposes. The ways in which we communicate, work, and live have all been impacted greatly by this digital age. How to preserve this new way of creating and storing information is extremely important if we are going to be able to keep access to what is being created today and have it for the historical record We can begin to solve the digital preservation problem through advocacy by educating the public, designing best-practice policies, and using various preservation techniques.