Workshop on Electronic Texts: Proceedings, 9-10 June 1992
Workshop on Electronic Texts: Proceedings, 9-10 June 1992
In June 1992, the Library of Congress gathered the architects of digital preservation to confront a question that would define the next three decades of scholarship: how does humanity move its written record into the digital age? These proceedings capture that pivotal moment, when technologists, librarians, and policy experts wrestled with imaging technologies, optical character recognition, copyright complexities, and the fundamental tension between quantity and quality in digitization efforts. Here are the voices of the people building the infrastructure of our modern digital archives, debating standards for electronic texts, user requirements, and the future of scholarly communication. The concerns feel remarkably contemporary: What gets lost when a manuscript becomes pixels? Who owns digital knowledge? How do we build systems scholars actually want to use? For anyone in digital humanities, library science, or archival studies, this serves as a foundational time capsule - the raw, early thinking that shaped the digital infrastructure we now take for granted.
