DATA DOMESDAY
June 1st, 2002
BY MARK ROWEMUSEUMS and research institutions are being warned that they risk losing vast amounts of digital information unless new techniques are developed to conserve the material.Until recently all that was needed to archive information recorded in traditional forms such as the printed page, analogue tape or film was the physical storage place to house the material.But today an increasing amount of information is designed for computer access and the scale of the task of archiving it is immense. Taken together, the world's total yearly production of print, ...
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