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Topic: archives

Obsolete data-storage media from the late 20th and early 21st centuries
New Technology
Thursday, 7/2, 12:16 PM

Why digital government records are so hard to preserve

  • Paper can last for centuries; digital files are far more fragile.
  • As governments move their records online, archivists face a quiet crisis — formats go obsolete, storage decays, and the software needed to read today's documents may not exist tomorrow, threatening a hole in the historical record.

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