Dialogue & Society

Roundtable: Recording culture in digital form

Dialogue & Society

Educators and engineers debate platforms, permanence, and who gets to decide what is preserved.

Digital preservation is never only technical: file formats age, but so do consent frameworks and community priorities. This roundtable assembles three Institute fellows with a software archivist and a secondary-school teacher.

No consensus emerged—by design. The transcript is offered as a map of tensions that institutions must navigate together with users rather than for them.

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