During the reading of this week’s Hughes chapters, I became a bit confused by the relationship between digitization and preservation. I know that by digitizing documents, they are being preserved. I also know that there are many reasons to digitize, not just to preserve…but I am still a bit confused about the connection. The two terms have been consistently brought up in the readings as not synonymous…but I want to know more. Please help clarify. Also–maybe I missed it–but what exactly is the definition of preservation. I have that digitization is the process by which analogue content is converted into binary code read by a computer…but preservation, not so sure!
Also, are we (in this course) mainly digitizing page images or full text as mentioned in ch. 10? From the explanation, I am guessing page images…but I am unsure.
See you all tomorrow…
~Christine (please, everyone, call me Chrisie)
