Looking Forward 50 Years From Now: Threats to the Durability of Locally Created Content
Channel: CAUL Manager
Date: 2022-11-07

Presenter: Mark Jordan, Associate Dean of Libraries for Digital Strategy, Simon Fraser University

Date: November 7, 2022

Slides: https://tinyurl.com/yc58jsb2

Brought to you by the CAAL Digital Preservation and Stewardship Committee as part of the Digital Preservation Webinar Series

Access to libraries' locally created and managed digital content 50 years after its creation cannot be taken for granted. In the absence of active and sustainable stewardship, we can assume the content we are creating today will not be accessible in 2072. Having a shared understanding of threats to the durability of our content is vital to working together to mitigate those threats. This presentation will identify some of those threats and propose some ways we can increase the likelihood that users in 50 years will not see our era as a digital dark age.