*DIGITAL preservation, *ARCHIVES conventions, *INFORMATION resources -- Congresses, *DIGITIZATION of library materials, *EXCHANGE of publications, *CONFERENCES & conventions
Abstract
Information is presented about several papers presented at the Digital Preservation Summit 2011, held on October 19-20, 2011, in Hamburg, Germany. Topics include predictions regarding the digitization of scientific publications by the year 2020, methods of employing digitization to secure long-term archiving, and the exchange of professional experiences about digital archiving.
*CONFERENCES & conventions, *PRESERVATION of books, *DIGITIZATION of library materials
Abstract
The article reports on a May 2007 Swedish National Library conference, or Think Tank as it was called, on the role of the book as artifact and the value of the printed versus digital material. A report on the Google digitalization project at the University of Michigan was presented. Other talks addressed paper book preservation and warehousing, the growth of illiteracy, and the anarchy of the Internet.