At the Spring CNI meeting a few days ago in Minneapolis, David Rosenthal gave an absolutely extraordinary plenary talk on digital preservation. For everybody at the talk who wanted additional details, and for all those who couldn't be at the talk, David has provided an extended version of his argument (as well as pointers to his slides) on his blog site at:

DSHR's Blog: Spring CNI Plenary: The Remix

This post provides the text of the slides, sources and commentary for the opening plenary that I just gave at the CNI Spring Task Force meet...

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI