What is DIGITAL?

A Physical object?

A Representation of A Representation?

Another Way to Convey Information?

A Different Carrier?

A New Era?

Digital Means a lot.

The historic and scholarly record are increasingly digital.

Where the cultural record used to be written in letters, ledgers, and books, now it's all digital.

What will future historians know about us?

What Digital Preservation Looks Like

Significant Properties
Materiality
complexity

What Digital Preservation is NOT

• A technical problem
• Digitization
• Something that you complete
• Separate from access

What Digital Preservation IS

• Infrastructure : Administration (policies), Technical, Resources (staff)
• Providing access into the distant future
• An active choice

Further Reading (And watching)

• Digital Preservation's Place in the Future of the Digital Humanities
• Digital Materiality
• Preserving Virtual Worlds
• Reading: Deena Larsen
• Software, It's a Thing