Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 15, No. 503.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
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Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 08:05:57 +0000
From: Patricia Galloway <galloway@gslis.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: 15.501 a poisoned e-chalice?
Francois' question raises yet another vexed question for e-archivists to
solve! But seriously, folks: digital preservation archivists are working
on ways to handle both archaic formats and the complex intellectual
property issues that cling to electronic resources; but the short answer
is that most archives would not accept custody of the hardware and if
they did would not engage to keep it running, so the question of
residual bits on hard drives seldom comes up. But certainly those hard
drives can be real palimpsests, which digital forensics specializes in
analyzing, as is happening as we speak with certain Enron and Arthur
Anderson equipment.
Pat Galloway
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Texas-Austin
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