How will trends in digital information impact disciplines e.g. history, archival research and recordkeeping? How will future historians looking back at our era and use archives of digital information?

Background

Good Knowledge and Information Management is essential for good government. The challenges of the digital era are complex and diverse: mimicking a paper-based model is doomed to failure. We need to develop radically new tools and techniques to support enhanced sense-making for information exploitation in the near-term and better long-term preservation and management of historically important material for the long-term.

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