from CNET
Digital archivists look to porn, Flash for tips
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The best bet for long-term preservation, especially in the digital realm, would seem to run counter to the traditional view of preservation, which is one that is: "highly controlled by skilled professionals, who often deal with tangible, long-lasting and, in the case of museum quality art, highly expensive materials".

Instead, for digital materials to survive, they must depend on a coummunity of networks to make a multitude of copies and spreading these copies far and wide, so that some might still be around in years to come. So the whole idea of stringent copyright, as we know it today, is the enemy of digital preservation. Or putting it another way: "Data's got to continuously move to stay alive; and it's got to be frequently accessed by a lot of people. Open source, publicly documented formats and software will be the long-term survivors".

from The Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
Picking up the pieces of broken art
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An article revealing a ordinary day of a artifact conservator.

If there is a ranking of the most underrated occupations, the conservators would easily fall into any of the placings. Doing the unusual finding-fault work, it is unknown to many others that conservation is not just another routine day job. It requires good eyesight for microscopic details and indefinite length of patience and a pair of healthy lungs for inhaling the chemicals. Not easy work after all, one proper finished (and satisfied!) conservation work could take from a few hours to forever. Yet every attempt to doctor a broken artwork is done with in respect of and preservation of the artisit's original intention.

Many before me tried it, so i cant really complain that I'm doing the most frustration work in the world.