McCargar on Newspaper Preservation
The Seybold Report includes an item by Vicky McCargar, a senior editor of the Los Angeles Times who’s known for her expertise in digital archiving, about archiving newspapers and news content digitally. She mentions issues like copyright, formats, and versions.
"Best practices for digital archiving suggest that the process actually begins with the photographer or reporter and continues through the entire editing process. But the burdens and requirements of well-formed metadata are way beyond what can reasonably be expected of shooters, wordsmiths and artists. On the archives end, the only way to guarantee the compliance of the record is a set of quality controls, which are usually humans drawing a salary and benefits. Without them, the resulting record is basically an anomaly and, over time, subject to becoming invisible to a future search engine."
