A story in the New York Times describes how new technology is transforming the work of historians and other researchers using archives. The technology is improving productivity and helping researcher to be more collaborative.
But, as the story points out, "the transformation has also disrupted many of the world’s
historical archives, long known as sleepy places distinguished by vast
and often musty collections of documents that only rarely saw the light
of day. It has also created new challenges for protecting intellectual
property and threatened revenue streams from document copying, creating
financial challenges for some institutions."