Analysis highlights challenges in digitisation and indefinite preservation of the First Folio, suggesting resource concerns.
News of the Bodleian's plans to digitise the First Folio are to be welcomed, but several passages in this article made me question the purpose of indefinite preservation of this object... especially once that digitisation is complete. First off, there's the resources question. Consider a parallel to the outspoken view of Chris Packham on the conservation of pandas: In this case, we place a very high social value on the item in question.
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