The Uncertain Fate of Scholarly Artifacts in a Digital Age

Obsolete systems threaten scholarship, even as technology promises a new research era

By SCOTT CARLSON

Deena Larsen talks enthusiastically about her collection of electronically linked poems, Marble Springs, stopping now and then to emphasize that it is not lost to history. Not yet, anyway.

The historian Roy Rosenzweig thinks often about...

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