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Shooting at a moving target – Digital Preservation Coalition
"One of the most exciting (or is that offputting?) things about digital preservation is that things don’t stay still – new formats and software are appearing all the time. The sheer variety of formats out there and which are continuing to be developed can make the task of “keeping up” with technological advances seem overwhelming. There’s a massive temptation to leave the problem to someone else – either the provider of your preservation software or maybe to your successors."
Digital hoarders: “Our terabytes are put to use for the betterment of mankind” | Ars Technica
"The communal purpose here is exactly what it sounds like: these amateur archivists set out to collect and capture data and to preserve it for record, reference, and future reading. Often, the goal is to retain this information both online and off, through physical media or terabytes of personal hard drives and storage."