The document discusses several themes around digital preservation including structures for collaboration, open source software, economics of preservation, and new patterns of production. It notes the increasing demands on institutions to preserve vast amounts of digital content and the challenges of predicting long-term costs. Specific costs are provided for scanning different media types. Complex cost models try to illustrate uncertainties but show preservation costs are much higher than storage costs. Partnerships are discussed but can be uncertain. Personal archiving is growing in importance.

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18. Comite des Sages: “With no exaggeration, we can state that what is at stake is a common good of humanity and not just of Europe.” “The public sector has the primary responsibility to fund digitisation, and Member States willneed to considerably step up their investments in digitisation. The current financial crisiscannot be ignored, but equally cannot be a reason for not acting.”

23. EDUARDO I said it’s time to monetize the site.MARK What does that mean?EDUARDO It means it’s time for the website to generate revenue.MARK No I know what the word means. I’m asking how do you want to do it?EDUARDO Advertising.MARK No.EDUARDO We’ve got 4000 members.MARK ‘Cause theFacebook is cool. If we start installing pop-ups for Mountain Dew it’s not gonna--EDUARDO Well I wasn’t thinking Mountain Dew but at some point--and I’m talking as the business end of the company--the site--MARK We don’t even know what it is yet. We don’t know what it is, we don’t know what it can be, we don’t know what it will be. We know that it’s cool, that is a priceless asset I’m not giving it up.

25. “ ...the role of personal archives in daily life and their research value have never been more profound. The potential benefits to society and to individuals are both deep and far reaching in their capacity to empower research and human well being and advancement.”