Archiving Issues

With the world exchange of information changing from only newspapers, to numerous online multimedia contents, a new dilemma has occurred.  How do we archive all of the different types of contents?

In an audio article from the series The Practice of Online Journalism, "Archiving Issues" talks about the issues the world faces as media continually changes.  In the world of journalism, content is the product, the value of the field.  For the field to lose content due to lack of archiving, would be a tremendous loss.

The dilemma lies in the inconsistency of archiving and saving content in its original context.  Articles, photos, audio recordings, and other media content has been saved to some extent, but linking it all together, in the original context, is what companies are now looking into.

As the internet world has evolved and archiving has changed, companies have had to throw some work away, while reorganizing the content they were archiving.  If companies are doing this, many amateurs are as well, an unfortunate happening.

We realize that doing nothing would be a mistake and steps toward archiving all content is beginning.

I believe that it is just as important for small companies and amateurs to archive their work, as it is for large companies.  One option that has recently become popular for saving work is Dropbox.  Dropbox is an online service which allows users to save and share their content with others.  Basic uses are free, but more space is available for an additional cost.

This service offers a great solution to a previously unforeseen problem.  There are probably many other online services helping to eliminate the loss of valuable content and offering alternative solutions to the archiving problems we are currently facing.  I highly suggest checking out one or more of these solutions, so that your own work is not later lost.