digital archiving - it's not that simple

Contrary to naive claims that since disk drives are inexpensive digital archiving won't be a costly affair, Computerworld explores the two most pressing issues affecting digital preservation today: a lack of standards during both the content creation and storage phases and the high costs of on-going digital preservation. This article, Digital crisis: Motion pictures may fade to black should be a wake up call to us in the information professions that we face the same issues and need to move much more quickly in creating and adopting standards as well as forming partnerships to spread the responsibility of digital preservation efforts given the unsustainability, both technologically and monetarily, of many of our current models.