In Michael L. Nelson’s view of digital preservation’s future, data is well behaved but promiscuous. Dead Web sites will be brought back to life, digital data will be born archivable, files will describe themselves, and data will spread freely among the masses for safekeeping.
Michael’s idealism stems from his work as assistant professor of Computer Science at Old Dominion University (ODU) in Norfolk, Va. His ODU team participated in the Library of Congress’s landmark Archive Ingest and Handling Test (AIHT) project, which researched the challenge of what Michael calls “archival forensics”: ingesting, making sense of and improving the preservability of a set of donated digital archives.
Source: Library of Congress
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