"The Perils of Digital Preservation"

This article focuses on information that is "born digital" and the issues associated with digital preservation today. Many of these topics have been covered extensively before and beg for a solution. This article does provide some strategies to begin a set of standards, again, to decide what to preserve, how to access it, and how to store it.

"Born digital information has no physical original to refer back to."

"Digital preservation is increasingly driven by the need to give wider
access to information, and often by the commercial imperative to turn that access into a revenue stream.
Preservation strategies must include a comprehensive audit trail and will almost certainly bring the IT and archivist's functions closer together.
Strategies should include the establishment of selection criteria, and investment in standards-based technologies compliant, for example, with the Public Records Office standards for records management."

Ford, P. (2003). "The perils of digital preservation." Information World Review.
http://www.vnunet.com/information-world-review/features/2084000/perils-digital-preservation