Roy Rosenzweig made a statement that historians believe that it is the job of the archivist to preserve digital history. It is the responsibility for all individual to have input on preserving our digital history. If student and citizens alike are not made to understand the importance of saving these digital records a portion of history will be lost. He wrote that there was no separation in the work of a historian or a person titled archivist. The historian believed that it was their responsibility to preserve as well as research the past.
I perceived from Roy Rosenzweig’s article that it is of vital importance to preserve digital history. I believe that we need the collection of digital history for accurate assessment in the future. We have struggled to collect bit and pieces of the past but now, we have an opportunity to begin at the forefront of the Digital era and save the information without it being an after thought. Digital information is as much a part of history as great works of art, music, social events. The information saved to day may possible help in new frontier for tomorrow. If they are lost future generation will struggle trying to peace-together the information that it took ages to develop. We do need scholarly engagement to address the situation that we may provoke public action to preserve digital information because many minds working towards a common goal is less of a struggle.