Many practitioners in digital preservation and access will have welcomed the recent news item
from the BBC Technology News Web site on the UK’s Web heritage. They will be concerned that much of society as a whole remains unaware of the threat to the persistence of digital resources on which we increasingly rely. Commenting on this news item, Dr. Liz Lyon, Associate Director of the UK Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and author of the report Dealing with Data, remarked, “We fully support the work that the British Library has undertaken to address the potential and irredeemable loss of so many Web sites. Moreover, professionals working in digital curation would wish to emphasise that the dangers are not confined to Web heritage. Our research data is in similar peril and assuring its sustainability is at the heart of the work being carried out by the DCC.”