Data Curation Needed to Avoid a Digital Dark Age

Authors

Desiree Butterfield-NagyFollow

Abstract

An increasingly recognized need for digital cura­tion, or the active selection of digital files and taking steps toward preserving them, has been a natural evolution in an environment where vast amounts of intellectual and cultural content is born digital and may not be represented in tangible form. Desirée Butterfield-Nagy explores the measures that individuals and organizations need to take to ensure we avoid a Digital Dark Age.

First page

144

Last page

145

DOI

https://doi.org/10.53558/OYKX9116

Recommended Citation

Butterfield-Nagy, Desiree. "Data Curation Needed to Avoid a Digital Dark Age." Maine Policy Review 24.1 (2015) : 144 -145, https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mpr/vol24/iss1/39.