Digital Preservation: We Know What it Means Today, But What Does Tomorrow Bring?

Digital Preservation: We Know What it Means Today, But What Does Tomorrow Bring? Celia Jenkins on Randy Kiefer's presentation.  UKSGLive. April 3, 2015.
Long-term preservation refers to processes and procedures required to ensure content remains accessible well into the future. Publishers want to be good stewards of their content. Digital Preservation is an "insurance policy" for e-resources. Commercial hosting platforms and aggregators are not preservation archives! They can remove discontinued content from their system, and commercial businesses may disappear, as with Metapress. There are global digital preservation archives, such as CLOCKSS and Portico, and regional archives, such as National Libraries.
The biggest challenges in the future are: formats (especially presentation of content; and what to do with databases, datasets and supplementary materials. "Any format can be preserved, including video. The issue is that of space, cost and presentation (especially if the format is now not in use/supported)." There are legal issues with cloud based preservation systems. There is no legal precedent with a cloud-based preservation system, and no protection with regards to security.

Digital Preservation Matters.