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Friday, May 16, 2003
Creating the Digital Future - Robert Coonrod, First Monday
... But creating these digital resources is only the first step. The larger and continuing challenge — not only for broadcasters but for museums and libraries as well — is to sustain them. Part of the challenge is ascertaining the value — inherent and future — of our assets. We all want to make our collections more widely available. And digital presents such tantalizing possibilities. Imagine — the entire Library of Congress collection digitized to fit in a file drawer or every television program ever made available on demand. But digitizing, organizing, storing and preserving content all have costs, and we all have budgets. That means that we have to make judgments about the scholarly, historic, cultural, strategic or financial significance of our content.
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