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# Digital preservation
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/digital-preservation-2/
- Published: 2008-04-11T17:53:37.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-28T09:25:53.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: #MPOW, Systems

The New York Times carries an [article](https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/09/technology/techspecial/09store.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net) this week about the economics of digital preservation. The context is the NSF *Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access* co-chaired by my colleague Brian Lavoie.

> All that work is going on, Dr. Lavoie said, but “that misses the point” that the task force was formed to examine: ensuring that the various technologies make economic sense. “You can have the most elegant technological solution to the digital-preservation problem, but if there’s no economics underpinning it, then there’s no solution at all,” he said. \[[In Storing 1’s and 0’s, the Question Is $ – New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/09/technology/techspecial/09store.html?pagewanted=2&sq=&ref=lorcandempsey.net)\]

Brian has an [article](https://www.dlib.org/dlib/march08/lavoie/03lavoie.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net) outlining the work of the Task Force in the current issue of the D-Lib Magazine.