The Contemporary Digitization of Historic Material

Background

The act of archiving can be considered primordial with respect to history. History itself can attribute almost its entirety to those who have achieved its components. However, what purpose does an object have when left to wither away until unidentifiable? How does that contribute to our understanding of the past? As any historian will exclaim, the study of the past allows for a deeper understanding of the world we live in today. Historic information offers much insight for contemporary application. The preservation of historic material is just as important as its discovery. With the proliferation of technology and data readily accessible in the twenty-first century, antiquarians and archivists are dedicatedly working to further archive and interpret historic material via contemporary digitization processes.