“Es nuestro vigor primario, nuestra potencia creadora más profunda, nuestro fondo básico de energía vital, lo que nos infunde el deseo, no importa cuán irracional, de hacer incorrupto lo corruptible y eterno lo perecedero.”
Francisco González-Crussi, Notas de un anatomista (1990:37)
Archiveteam
“We are going to rescue your shit”.
The British Cartoon Archive - University of Kent
More information about their methods, here.
Digital Preservation: An Unsolved Problem | Harvard Magazine May-Jun 2010
“Objects that begin in an analog format—a book, a recording of a poetry reading, or a piece of music—are easiest to preserve digitally because librarians can choose the optimal file format for long-term access. Material that is born digital—e-mail, for example, which comes in many different, often proprietary, formats—is not so easy to preserve.”
