Digital Heritage

In recent years we have become acquainted with the ghost of the totalitarian digital world. Uncertainty has spread between the poles of utopian euphoria and the despairing charge of an irreversible loss of substance. Pessimistic newspaper headlines herald "The Torture of the Bits", as well as the erosion of the function of libraries as a result of digitalization (of books). This is contrasted by the complete affirmation of the new technologies: (…) the Internet promised completely new opportunities for accessing historical collections, provided that these could be stored on servers.

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