Jul 22, 2020
"The 20th century was about audiovisual material, our memory of the 20th century is heavily audiovisual, but our sense of the 21st century is going to be a different kind of audiovisual (...). In a situation where everything can be recorded easily, archiving is not going to be so much about what we can bring in, but about what to exclude. Otherwise, you’re going to end up with a white noise of information which is completely incomprehensible."
Will Prentice, British Library Audio Engineer and Conservation Specialist (13:54 - 14:21)