I was amused, therefore, to find in correspondence at the Library of Congress that Thomas Jefferson wrote about this in 1791 proving both that he was an astonishing thinker and that there is nothing new under the sun. Speaking of the records of the American revolution, he said:“Let us save what remains not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident."

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The Ten Thousand Year Blog

Don't confuse with the open source database application Archivists' Toolkit.

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) was established in 2001 to foster joint action to address the urgent challenges of securing the preservation of digital resources in the UK and to work with others internationally to secure our global digital memor

Formerly 'Libraries and Culture'

Archives Hub provides a single point of access to 19,762 descriptions of archives held in over 150 UK universities and colleges. The 'For Archivists' section of the website contains a wealth of information about using XML and EAD for archive catalogues..

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