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当我们进入数码物件的电子时代时，最重要的是要意识到新技术已经给我们这个社会带来了很多挑战，其中之一就是如何在这个电子时代保存好历史档案记录。更重要的是我们要知道，我们正在步入这样一个时代：即我们今天所熟知的很多东西以及用电子方式编码和写入的很多东西将会永久丢失。其中一个例子就是遍布世界各地政府和大学的很多数据集由于技术的变化而被淘汰了，而且这些数据将来要么丢失，要么需要采取髙昂的“营救”措施来挽救它们。在我看来，我们正生活在一个数码黑暗时代。因此，图书和档案管理员肩挑的责任就是要恪守我们这个时代崇尚历史和出版遗产的传统。
As we enter the electronic age of digital objects, the most significant thing is to recognize that new technologies have brought many challenges to our society. One of them is how to preserve historical records in this electronic age. More importantly, we are moving into an era in which much of what we know today, and much of what is encoded and written electronically, will be lost forever. One example is that many data sets from governments and universities around the world are obsoleted due to changes in technology, and that data will either be lost in the future or will require costly “rescue” measures to save it. In my opinion, we are living in a digital dark age. Therefore, the responsibility of librarians and archivists is to scrupulously abide by the historical and publishing heritage we uphold in our time.
