Long term preservation of digital information
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TL;DR
A novel approach to the preservation of digital data for the long term is presented, which distinguishes between archiving of data files andarchiving of programs (so that their behavior may be reenacted in the future).
Abstract
The preservation of digital data for the long term presents a variety of challenges from technical to social and organizational. The technical challenge is to ensure that the information, generated today, can survive long term changes in storage media, devices and data formats. This paper presents a novel approach to the problem. It distinguishes between archiving of data files and archiving of programs (so that their behavior may be reenacted in the future).