Digital preservation needs to be built into the corporate information landscape

Preservica CEO Jon Tilbury discusses the role of the CIO in Safeguarding Digital Information

"Digital preservation needs to be built into the corporate information landscape. Information needs to be fed directly into digital information systems from the live locations without user involvement at a time when the information is still readable. Users need to be able to search and access the information using whatever device they have. The cloud may help. It certainly provides the durable storage that is required, and also allows the current specialist technologies required to be provided and updated. It also means that vital internal IS resources are not being consumed on lower value niche applications."......click here to read the whole article: pages 36/37.