March 7, 2003
Library of Congress Aims to Preserve Intellectual Materials Existing in Digital Formats
The Library of Congress will begin a program to preserve intellectual materials that exist in digital formats, library officials announced last month. Such materials include music and pictures on CD's, literature and journalism in the form of e-books, and online scholarly publications.
The program will find the best strategies for selecting worthy digital work, study the technical and intellectual-property issues involved in preserving it, and begin setting up a preservation
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