Digital Conservation and Access

We are at a unique point in history, the cusp of a Digital Dark Age, where cultural heritage professionals must work to care for the physical past while assuring that there will be a digital Rosetta Stone for future generations. This contribution describes the state-of-the-field in digital preservation and access, and is a call to action for individuals and institutions alike to work beyond our comfort zones and competitive boundaries in order to help define a sustainable digital future. Defined as an “hourglass of participation”, I describe a method where knowledge producers, curators and consumers interact and actively work to make content born-archival and long-term viable, semantically managed and ready for reuse and public dissemination

Business · Digital Revolution · Humanity · Internet privacy · Political science · Public relations · Reuse · Sociology · Telecommunications · 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage · Computer Science · Digital and Traditional Archives Management · Engineering · Law · Museums and Cultural Heritage