Time and Bits : Managing Digital Continuity,9780892365838

Time and Bits : Managing Digital Continuity

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ISBN13: 9780892365838
ISBN10: 0892365838
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-07-13
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press, USA
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Summary

What are the long-term implications of relying on current digital technology to preserve our cultural memory? This is the question that framed a symposium at the Getty Center where leaders from industry, entertainment, and digital information technology focused on the critical issues of the fragility of digital media and our growing dependence on these new media. This volume, which includes the proceedings from discussions as well as chapters on our reliance on digital media, promotes the debate and resolution of these problems. Contributors include Stewart Brand, author of the Whole Earth Catalog ; musician and artist Brian Eno; Kevin Kelly, senior editor at Wired Magazine ; Danny Hillis, vice president of Disney; and other involved in digital technology, conservation, and reference.

Author Biography


Margaret MacLean is an independent consultant and the editor of Cultural Heritage in Asia and the Pacific. Ben H. Davis is electronic publications manager for Getty Trust Publications.

Table of Contents

Foreword v
Barry Munitz
Mapping the Project, Grasping the Consequences
1(10)
Ben Davis
Margaret Maclean
Defining the Problem of Our Vanishing Memory: Background, Current Status, Models for Resolution
11(10)
Peter Lyman
Howard Besser
Stroing Knowledge
21(11)
Doug Carlston
Setting the Stage: Summary of Initial Discussions
32(4)
Margaret Maclean
Public Session: Panel Discussion
36(29)
Ongoing Digital Dialogue: The Time & Bits Threaded Discussion
65(5)
Shelley Z. Taylor
Afterword
70(1)
Stewart Brand
References 71(2)
Digital Preservation Resources 73

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