The purpose of E-arkiv.com is to share knowledge about permanence og electronic media. This website collects articles and links related to this issue.

E-arkiv.com is administrated by Jacob Trock, Conservator, graduated from the School of Conservation, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen with Master thesis om Preserving electronic documents on CD-R. JT are now working as Head of The Danish Filmarchive at The Danish Filminstitute. As responsible person for the Danish Film Heritage, will this website over time contain more about film, videoformats and DVD media since these media types serve as storage media for moving images.

Increasingly amount of our cultural heritage are today stored on some kind of electronic media. It is not an easy task to stop the ageing and deterioation of our electronic memory. Many problems arise when you are working with electronic media. This website helps you finding relevant litterature and links that hopefully will help you on your search for information.

This website is created in the good spirit of knowledgesharing. Please feel free to enter your own links and articles related to preservation of our cultural e-heritage.
Jacob Trock