24 August 2007

In The Chronicle of Higher Education, Kirschenbaum advocates for standardizing our methods of digital preservation. The whole thing is worth reading, but here’s a key passage:

While I don’t mean to minimize the very real challenges in the realm of digital preservation, in my view those challenges are best understood as at least as much social as technological.

Indeed.

You are reading “Matthew Kirschenbaum: ‘Hamlet.doc? Literature in a Digital Age’.”