A mini-case study on Harvard's digital archives:
I had never given much thought to long-term storage and archiving of content. Well, I did to the extent that I typically advocated XML and other standards-based technology--mainly so content and data would outlast any particular software system or application. But I had never thought much about truly long-term storage—what some in the field like to refer to as the "100 year digital object"—until I was engaged by the State of Washington to help study the feasibility of creating a digital archive. Part of my analysis was to interview other organizations that had undertaken similar initiatives. The most interesting interview was with Harvard University.
Posted by Karl
October 28, 2003 02:50 PM