Digital curator Giulia Carla Rossi: ‘There is a misconception that if something is on the internet it will last for ever’

Giuli Carla Rossi si is curator of digital publications at the British Library.

She works to preserve the new and often experimental ways in the British Library elling stories ac Emerging Formats other digital platforms.

The form and feeling of the collected works vary hugely, from interactive fiction to VR games to the almost impossible-to-categorise entries of the New Media Writing prize.

Many digital formats are already inaccessible webpages, floppy disks, even smartphone apps that are no longer supported.

Why hasn’t more been done to preserve these digital creations? There is Emerging Formats that when something is on the internet it is there for ever.

It’s hard to think far in the future and realise that the kind of t first logy, and even the way we read, might be very different in a few years' time. a few years’ time Apps iPad 2020 Adobe Flash apps Adobe Flash UK the British Library the New Media Writing apps tText__ Android UK