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Digitization is vital to preservation as bits are our best insurance against time and entropy. Bits are resilient to chronic underfunding as storage gets cheaper. Bits can never replace the original but can allow universal access for sharing our culture and preserving it.
Underfunding may be the tragedy here but there are many tragedies no amount of funding can prevent over a long enough timeframe. Digitization may only offer a ghost - but it's a ghost that will never age and can and will get captured in the fabric of our infinite digital museum.
When something of value is truly lost any recollection is better than none. Even with lossy methods of digital preservation we are still offered faint possibilities of improved quality as technology improves.
fastcompany.com/3047045/in-the…
Tragedy has happened across all history, ceaselessly, and what survived for thousands of years can be destroyed in seconds. ISIS and Al-Qaeda have looted and demolished priceless artifacts - and people today risk their lives for preservation.
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/innovator…
Some items may never be digitized, either due to technological limitations or unbreakable limits, but all the rest should have their matching digital counterpart made with haste.
Disasters don't wait for us.
And disasters are rarely in the form we expect.
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