Google's Era: Navigating Digitalization, Preservation Challenges in Cultural Heritage

Preservation in the Era of Google: Digitalization, Digital Preservation, and Challenges

Paul Conway

The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy

Volume 80, Issue 1 January 2010, Pages 61-79

Abstract:

This paper addresses the evolving landscape of cultural heritage preservation within a digital context influenced by Google's technological framework. By juxtaposing definitions for digitization for preservation and digital preservation, it sets forth an exploration on how these concepts intertwine with digital technologies.

Following this, two pivotal Council on Library and Information Resources CLIR reports - Preserving Digital Information from 1996, and Preservation in the Age of Large-Scale Digitization from ten years later – are analyzed to highlight their insights. These documents outline frameworks for digital preservation practices relevant to book digitization and by implication, broader cultural heritage preservation.

Four key dilemmas emerge amidst this discussion: environmental challenges for storage, new threats to preservation quality, risks to audiovisual heritage, and the emergence of a widening expertise gap between practitioners and stakeholders.

The paper concludes with recommations on how to navigate these complexities in making strategic decisions about digital preservation strategies.

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