Digital vs. Analogous Long Term Preservation Microfilm still alive...?

Long - term archiving of digital data on microfilm Steffen

E-government applications have to archive data or documents for long retention periods of 100 years or more. This requires to store digital data on stable media, and to ensure that the file formats can be read by available software. Both applications as well as media technology have only short life spans. Thus, data has to be migrated at frequent intervals onto new data carriers and to new file...

: Predicting Long Term Digital Preservation Costs

As we develop our ability to preserve digital collections through techniques such as migration and emulation, the decision process of what action to take and when to take it becomes increasingly complex. Cost is a crucial factor to consider but the financial implications of preservation planning decisions are not typically well understood. At a strategic level, there are also significant challe...

LIFE3: Predicting Long Term Digital Preservation Costs

Long-Term Preservation of Digital Cultural Heritage

Much of the new information created today is in digital form and needs to be archived that way. Older information, mostly on paper, is in danger of becoming unreadable – or inaccessible and needs to be converted to digital form. In both cases, it is imperative that the digital files be usable even in a distant future, either because they are relevant to the functioning of a company, organizatio...

Long-Term Preservation of Digital Material