digital preservation and long-term sustainability

[deborah]

I've made a conscious choice not to try to become a Big Name Blogger in librarianship and archives. I've got too many strings to my bow already -- I am not a Bagthorpe! Unless maybe I am Jack. -- and it would be too much work to maintain that constant level of intelligent back-and-forth. Of course, there are negative side effects to not pushing my blog out there in the world. Sometimes I say something which I think is really important about sustainable digital preservation and I wish other people would contribute to the conversation so we can have some back and forth and develop the idea, and it doesn't happen.

Luckily, I'm not the only person talking about long-term economic sustainability. Brian Lavoie's "The Fifth Blackbird: Some Thoughts on Economically Sustainable Digital Preservation" is a good article I think everyone else in the field should read.

(Still, I'm going to be using my Operational Preservation Matrix for the next new project we start up here, and I'm going to keep track of how well it works to develop it further. Even if no one but me is interested, I think it's awesome.)

Comments

[bunnyjadwiga.livejournal.com]

Yay bagthorpes.
But keep posting, you remind me what I'm supposed to be doing.

[deborah]

Ha! But so often, what we are supposed to be doing is nowhere near as much fun as what we are choosing to do.

Oh, now I want to go home and reread all the Bagthorpe books.

no point to this comment

[forodwaith.livejournal.com]

except for the icon

Re: no point to this comment

[deborah]

stay away from my dog, Daisy, you holy terror, you!

Bowstrings

[(Anonymous)]

Another yay for the Bagthorpes and for your cool blog!

Re: Bowstrings

[deborah]

Thank you so much!