Comments on: Rieger, Preservation in the Age of Large-Scale Digitization http://www.stoa.org/archives/779 Serving news, projects, and links for digital classicists everywhere. Wed, 08 May 2013 16:09:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Dot Porter http://www.stoa.org/archives/779/comment-page-1#comment-107562 Dot Porter Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:45:12 +0000 http://www.stoa.org/?p=779#comment-107562 “The more copies of our cultural artefacts that exist, in different formats, contexts, and versions, the more likely we are to retain some of our civilisation after the next cataclysm.”

That’s the aim of LOCKSS – Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe – to encourage libraries to take part in distributed preservation of digital works (http://www.lockss.org/lockss/Home). I don’t know much about their software (“open source, peer-to-peer, decentralized digital preservation infrastructure”) but the idea is a sound one. Points to the importance of open access, too – the more copies there are, the more likely that a copy will be available into the future. Keeping your digital data locked up is not a sound strategy for long-term preservation.

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