Jerome McDonough
Associate Professor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Existing digital preservation efforts typically occur within the institutional contexts of libraries, archives, and museums, and focus on materials held to serve a given institution’s designated community. While there has been significant work over the last two decades on methods, models and best practices for digital preservation, as a community, we have paid less attention to the issue of whether our institutions themselves are designed in a way which facilitates long-term access to cultural heritage materials. This talk will identify ways in which the larger institutional structures within which preservation activities occur impede the preservation of cultural materials.