"Why archives want to destroy their reams of papers and risk a digital
dark age".
СТАТЬЯ 2016 года.
https://inews.co.uk/news/technology/national-archives-destroying-books-disposable-data-finland-7546
A man takes an old book from a shelf. Armed with a pair of scissors and a sharp knife, he slices down the back of its spine, breaks open the binding, and separates out the pages. These are trimmed in an electric guillotine and placed inside cardboard boxes. Leftover bindings are thrown unceremoniously into a plastic bin, while the pages are readied for the digitisation machines.
For those raised on a belief in books as the pinnacle of civilisation, this scene is horrifying - all the more so for where it takes place: the National Archives of Finland. Archives, after all, are places of conservation, not destruction.
But not, it seems, for long. Sweden and Hungary are also cutting open their books, and legislation enabling the institution here in Helsinki to dispose of its documents after digitising them is being finalised. Is this necessary?