Panel: Is Preservation in a Jam?

[Administrator]

What is cooking in the long-term preservation of scholarship?

Alicia Wise (Moderator)
♦ Executive Director at CLOCKSS
Miguel Mardero Arellano
♦ Director at Cariniana
Stephen Marks
♦ Digital Preservation Librarian at University of Toronto
Judy Russell
♦ Dean of Libraries at University of Florida

Researchers require more from librarians, publishers, intermediaries, funders if their scholarly contributions are to be accessed and used in future. Preserving the scholarly record will never be a solved problem: it needs constant reinvention, and is going to become harder over time. The diversification of scholarly outputs means that knowledge exists in a network of contextual metadata, data, software, standards and publications – requiring multilateral management of this complex knowledge graph. We’ll stir up discussion on hot topics including the confiture of collaborative print retention and storage, adding pectin into negotiations and more.

 

[mardero]

Hello! I am Miguel from the Brazilian Digital Preservation Network Cariniana. Happy to be here and happy new year for all!

 

[Administrator]

Below is a lightly curated copy of some points raised in the text chat during the session:

Rick Anderson​	Question for the panel: Too often, I feel like our conversations about digital preservation are built on the assumption that everything (or even all scholarly content) must be preserved. But obviously, not everything can be. How should we prioritize our digital preservation attentions?​
Robert Kiley​	Should all scholarly content be preserved? If so, at what point will the costs of preservation -- which is ongoing and forever -- mean that we accept that some content will not be preserved in perpetuity?​
Ellie Key​	Could the panel address the challenge of sustainability in regard to preservation practices; how can we balance the need to preserve content vs. environmental implications?​
Christopher Kenneally​	What does it mean to preserve a collection when in the digital environment there is no single copy in one place but infinite copies everywhere?​