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By Aliya Sternstein Technology Daily January 28, 2008
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    "We can't preserve everything" might not be true. The capability to establish and save digital records, while not unlimited, may exceed the rate at which we create them. I think two other issues will be more important:

    (a) the ability to finds things again after archiving, and

    (b) the extensive creation of redundant records.

    I notice that Apple now sells a computer with 100 GB or so of storage and NONE of it is on a disk -- so the advance of technology will always be an issue the digital archivist has to deal with. Whatever you view as a physically huge archive today may translate to a very small repository tomorrow, and any archival system will have to be able to follow that.

    The real failure would be to fail to capture material now that we will wish we captured later, so capture criteria will need to be crafted with great care.

    Richard Wright Posted January 29, 2008 10:31 AM

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