This document discusses several topics related to digitizing collections for access and preservation in the digital humanities field. It begins by using the metaphor of a digital dance to represent research infrastructure and the many existing collections. It then discusses principles for making digitized data open, interoperable, citable, and preserved for long-term access. The document also examines drivers for digitizing collections such as utilitarianism, preservation, opportunism, and consumerism. Finally, it raises questions about how digitized collections could be viewed and transformed as datasets and corpora of knowledge in the future.