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Advancing Preservation and Accessiblity
The digital information we create is in danger of disappearing on a massive scale. In a 2003 on-line survey, 47% of 2200 corporate-records managers
said “…that electronic records were not included in their companies’
retention policies…and 59% had no email retention
policy.” NASA discovered that magnetic tapes from its 1970s Mars Viking mission had not been stored properly and up to 20 percent of the tapes had data errors. What digital information must we preserve and how will future generations access these historical documents?
| The Digital Futures Alliance was formed to address the problems associated with long-term preservation of digital information.
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”The Legal Problem that Lurks Behind the Scenes,” Bob Tillman, E-Commerce Law & Strategy, July 6, 2004.
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