Thursday, December 17, 2015

The Future of the Humanities in a Digital Age

The Future of the Humanities in a Digital Age. SDSU News. December 15, 2015.
    In a preview of  a January lecture, Vint Cerf was asked about his comment of a "digital dark age" in that storage formats could become incompatible with future hardware technologies. His response  was "I am deeply concerned that people take "digital preservation" to mean digitizing fixed text and imagery. What I worry about is that this format will prove to be unreliable if the software that interprets it is no longer available. We really need to figure out how to assure that digitized content can be preserved regardless of format."

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