Future Proof – Protecting our digital future

photo credit: fo.ol Society today is producing far more information that it has the capacity to store and preserve. The gap between what we create and what will actually have the capacity to keep is also growing exponentially. ‘In fact, the production of digital information has already outstripped global server capacity by an estimated factor […]

American archivist Elena S Danielson has written a really interesting book called The Ethical Archivist (see description at http://goo.gl/xNRgU). In amongst a range of other fascinating ethical discussions, Danielson asks some probing questions about archival ethics in the digital age. Danielson says that a key collective aim of archival institutions is to ‘cultivate trusted archives based […]

Digital information is easy to create, share and use and is today a vital business resource, critical for business activity and efficient operations. Digital information however is very easy to lose and this can become a very costly problem for your organisation to manage and to deal with into the future.