There is an interesting piece by Katie Hafner in today’s NYT arguing that materials left undigitized may be overlooked as the digital record becomes primary.
These Steinbeck artifacts are not the only important pieces of history that are at risk of disappearing or being ignored in the digital age. As more museums and archives become digital domains, and as electronic resources become the main tool for gathering information, items left behind in nondigital form, scholars and archivists say, are in danger of disappearing from the collective cultural memory, potentially leaving our historical fabric riddled with holes. [History, Digitized (and Abridged) – New York Times]
