Digital Preservation - Barbarians at the Gate: This article is concerned with the actual dangers of digital preservation - data loss due to the ever increasing use of electronic mail and the loss of data due to changes in software and data storage platforms. The remedies advanced to counter the onset of a potential "digital dark ages" will be examined. [...]
The authors, from the University of Texas, contend that the electronic world in general and email in particular is a very poor medium for preserving data and point out some serious pitfalls with over reliance on the technology for historians in several generations time.
