The long-term preservation of digital entities requires mechanisms to manage the authenticity of massive data collections that are written to archival storage systems. Preservation environments impose authenticity constraints and manage the evolution of the storage system technology by building infrastructure independent solutions. This seeming paradox, the need for large archives, while avoidi...

The joint behavior of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and the Relative Price Investment (RPI) in data lead several authors to conclude that neutral technology shocks are positively correlated with investment-specific shocks, challenging specification standard macroeconomic models. This paper rejects correlated-shocks hypothesis using both parametric non-parametric methods controlling for struct...

The continuous growth of electronic documents, particularly born-digital documents, has threatened human ability to continue using records as a reliable information source due to the new challenges imposed by the preservation. This evidence and their long-term consequences to the nation’s history and identity configured the basis of the present thesis. The lack of a consolidated research method...