Motivation to Preserve

• Are we living in the “Digital Dark Age”?

  • BBC’s 1986 Domesday Book vs. original 1086 Domesday Book

• Amount of digital information

  • 93% of world info produced in 1999 (UC Berkeley 2000 study: “How Much Information”)

• Rate of technological

• change

  • ‘Antique’ if 15+ years old