Dark age of digitization

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The dark age of digitization is the loss of information and data due to outdated technologies such as certain outdated data formats , software or hardware , which are no longer accessible to the appropriate extent with the development of new technologies. Access to certain original data may no longer be possible for future generations, as these are no longer supported by new technologies. Since the information content is basically not tied to specific physical representations such as specific data memories or specific data structures, there is the option of preserving the information content for later generations by transferring (copying) it to contemporary technologies.

The term dark age of digitization refers to the dark centuries in which the history of a certain region is little or no research due to a lack of written sources or archaeological finds. The name was first coined during a conference of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) in 1997. The term was also used during the 1998 Time and Bits Conference sponsored by the Long Now Foundation and the Getty Conservation Institute .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Data reawakening (s) . In: Science Friday . 
  2. ↑ A Digital Dark Ages? Challenges in the Preservation of Electronic Information (en) (PDF). 
  3. ^ MacLean: Time and Bits, Managing Digital Continuity (en) . 
  4. ^ Escaping The Digital Dark Age (en) .