Archiving

Digital technologies have allowed an unprecedented leap in the capacity to generate and store information. The volume of data that can be stored and disseminated grows by the day. As a result, dilemmas emerge regarding the new functions and problem issues being faced by archives.

The net is taking root as the dominant paradigm for the digital repository, but can the Internet really replace archives?

It is estimated that around four fifths of the information and knowledge generated on the Internet since its creation has disappeared.

We must break down the usual assumptions about what is held in a museum and who decides what is collected, that is, what is preserved.