Librarians discuss how to store world's data

Libraries are overflowing with the ever-expanding trove of human knowledge, which has evolved beyond books and broadcasts into new digital formats that mutate all too frequently. The challenges of organizing, preserving and serving up the human experience brought more than 150 academic and governmental librarians from around the world to San Francisco this week for a conference sponsored by Sun Microsystems. Sun is among the technology vendors who see a vast new market in creating the digital storage sheds needed to house the world's intellectual output. At a briefing between conference sessions, Stanford University librarian Michael Keller outlined the two-pronged challenge - preserving and digitizing the wisdom of the past, and deciding what to keep of the new facts, photos and videos being created at accelerating rates.
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