I'm currently reading this guy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1421426978?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

Makes perfect sense.

Do you have any recommended reading on digital preservation?

k00b

there's no moment when you can declare "success" and consider the job done.

digital preservation is an ongoing, eternal process. I think that keeping bitcoin successful is similar, it's something that's worked on every day etc. 

niftynei

bitcoin

Stacker News Roundtable #1 - Building on Bitcoin, Bitcoin Culture, and More

> there is not point of "having preserved digital content", instead it's an endless task of "continuing to preserve" digital artifacts.

I'm reading this as "there's no point, but let's do it forever." I suspect it means digital artifacts need to be regularly re-preserved. Is that right?

One sadness programming brings me is that programs tend to "decay" because the environment they run in grows/changes so fast. Decay is relative in this way.