Involuntary Secondary Permanence: Do many copies replace the one original?

Yale University Preservation Lecture Series Luciana Duranti, PhD is Chair of Archival Studies at the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies of the University of British Columbia (UBC), and a Professor of archival theory, diplomatics, and the management of digital records in both its master’s and doctoral archival programs. She is also Faculty Associate Member of the University of British Columbia College for Interdisciplinary Studies, Media and Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre, and in 2011, by virtue of her overall academic record, she was awarded the position of Affiliate Full Professor at the University of Washington iSchool. She received her degrees from the University of Roma, La Sapienza. “Originality has no relationship with trustworthiness; Diplomatics studies the sequence of copies over time to assess the trustworthiness of a text that has been transmitted through the centuries by copying it, as well as the type of copy and its authority.” It is generally assumed th