In 1998, the Getty Center hosted the "Time and Bits: Managing Digital Continuity" conference, gathering the founders and thinkers of two San Francisco non-profit organizations interested in long-term thinking and archiving: the Internet Archive and the Long Now Foundation. This chapter proposes to discuss two different ways of archiving through time, in digital and analog formats, for virtual web contents and physical paper-based ones. It explores various types of archiving methods and tools and the management challenges they raise, in terms of time and space, but also innovation, maintenance, and "continuity". It depicts two distinct visions of the future of archiving which nonetheless converge in their mission of safeguarding, sharing, and giving access to information and knowledge for the decades and centuries to come.
University of Lorraine, France - ORCID: 0000-0003-1148-2490
Chapter Title
Time, bits, and nickel: Managing digital and analog continuity
Authors
Julie Momméja
Language
English
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0413-2.14
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Book Title
Exploring the Archived Web during a Highly Transformative Age
Book Subtitle
Proceedings of the 5th international RESAW conference, Marseille, June 2023
Editors
Sophie Gebeil, Jean-Christophe Peyssard
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
362
Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0413-2
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0412-5
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0413-2
eISBN (xml)
979-12-215-0414-9
Series Title
Proceedings e report
Series ISSN
2704-601X
Series E-ISSN
2704-5846