The Digital Black Hole

An article by Jonas Palm, Director, Head of Department of Preservation, Riksarkivet/National Archive, Stockholm, Sweden:

"Without long term planning digitization projects can come to behave like black holes. Scanned information, which in the analog world could be accessed simply by the use of our eyes, is suddenly stored in an environment where it is only retrievable through the use of technology, which constitutes a constant cost factor. The more information is converted the more the costs of accessing it go up"

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The article is published in the framework of the TAPE project: Training for Audiovisual Preservation in Europe

Last modified 28/04/2006