Data Deluge Swamps Science Historians, a 28 August 2009 free article from the Wall Street Journal Online, describes the challenge that digital communications pose to saving a record of modern science history. Columnist Robert Lee Hotz reports,
Usually, historians are hard-pressed to find any original source material about those who have shaped our civilization. In the Internet era, scholars of science might have too much. Never have so many people generated so much digital data or been able to lose so much of it so quickly, experts at the San Diego Supercomputer Center say.
The article describes digital preservation efforts in government, academia, and research institutions and features a slideshow of "Enormous Digital Archives."
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