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Seamus Ross, Digital Preservation, Archival Science and Methodological Foundations for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2007):

"Digital libraries, whether commercial, public or personal, lie at the heart of the information society. Yet research into their long term viability and the meaningful accessibility of their contents remains in its infancy. In general, as we have pointed out elsewhere, ‘after more than twenty years of research in digital curation and preservation the actual theories, methods, and technologies that can either foster or ensure digital longevity remain startlingly limited.’ Research led by DigitalPreservationEurope and the Digital Preservation Cluster of DELOS has allowed us to refine the key research challenges—theoretical, methodological, and technological—that need attention by researchers in digital libraries during the coming five to ten years if we are to ensure that the materials held in our emerging digital libraries are to remain are sustainable, authentic, accessible, and understandable over time. Building on this work and taking the theoretical framework of archival science as a foundation this paper investigates digital preservation and its foundation role if digital libraries are to have long-term viability at the centre of the global information society."

Via Lorcan Dempsey's weblog