The Future of Preserving the Past

Item Type Journal Article
Author Daniel J. Cohen
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Volume 2
Issue 2
Pages 6 - 19
Publication CRM: The Journal of Heritage Stewardship
ISSN 1068-4999
Date 2005 Summer
Journal Abbr CRM
Language English
Abstract The writer discusses the need for the cultural-heritage community to make extensive use of digital technologies as part of their mission. To highlight how the nature of the historical record has changed, he compares the efforts expended to save a rich and representative historical record of perhaps the two most tragic days in 20th-century American history: December 7, 1941; and September 11, 2001. He argues that the vast expansion of the historical record into new media that occurred between these dates presents serious challenges that will have to be surmounted if future scholars and the public are to have access to an adequate record of the past. He considers various aspects of the issue, such as the major reservations that many in the cultural-heritage community have about digital collecting, the active solicitation of digital materials, saving existing digital sources, and the importance of moving quickly to save extant digital materials.
Title The Future of Preserving the Past
Short Title The Future of Preserving the Past
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