Fragile, Handle with Care!: the Preservation of Digital Materials

Abstract

In this paper, I will address some of the main strategic issues that are of concern to libraries in the area of digital preservation. In the same way that there has been an explosion of information in digital form there is an equal explosion of information on digital preservation and this paper can only therefore take a broad view of the landscape. Much of the paper is based on the excellent background document on digital preservation by Maggie Jones and Neil Beagrie recently published by the British Library on behalf of the UK Digital Preservation Coalition, ‘Preservation Management of Digital Materials: a handbook’.