I disagree, integrity is lost. Digital images are too easy to manipulate. Authenticity is important in archiving vital records, they’ve compromised that.
But, I am still not convinced that CNN is correct in their claim the paper was destroyed. There seems to be room for argument there, too. More questions.
“Nothing is lost and/or changed, except the fact of “going digital”...”
You said — I disagree, integrity is lost. Digital images are too easy to manipulate. Authenticity is important in archiving vital records, they’ve compromised that.
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Well, different methodologies are being developed for “integrity” in digital storage and that will be a different kind of integrity. When you move from one major technology to another, you’re not going to have the same procedures and methodologies for “integrity” for both. They *each* developed methodologies for integrity, given the technology that it represents.
And, you can pretty well be guaranteed that we’re not moving back into paper, but we’re dispensing with paper, as a society, in all that we do and store and refer to. If anyone should know this — it should be FReepers as all that we talk about, reference and examine is all on the basis of “digital”....
No one is going to stop society’s move to be completely digital no matter what you want to “carry over” (from the integrity standpoint) from paper to digital... it won’t work that way...