Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation [OCLC]

Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation [OCLC]

DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 4 March 2010—Addressing one of the most urgent societal challenges of the Information Age—ensuring that valued digital information will be accessible not just today, but in the future—requires solutions that are at least as much economic and social as technical, according to a new report by a Blue Ribbon Task Force.
The Final Report from the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access, called “Sustainable Economics for a Digital Planet: Ensuring Long-term Access to Digital Information,” is the result of a two-year effort focusing on the critical economic challenges of preserving an ever-increasing amount of information in a world gone digital. The full report is available online at http://brtf.sdsc.edu/biblio/BRTF_Final_Report.pdf.
"The Data Deluge is here. Ensuring that our most valuable information is available both today and tomorrow is not just a matter of finding sufficient funds,” said Fran Berman, vice president for research at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and co-chair of the Task Force. “It's about creating a 'data economy' in which those who care, those who will pay, and those who preserve are working in coordination."

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