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Monday, October 15, 2001
http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/oct01/innovation5.asp Digital Preservation By Claire Tristram Increasingly, the record of our civilization is becoming digital, from census data to family photos. The Library of Congress alone has 35 terabytes of files. Yet rapid changes in computers and software could render this data unreadable. Congress recently allocated the library $100 million to look for a way to preserve its files—one of the most ambitious efforts yet to tackle digital obsolescence. "With that money we'll be able to gather the technical people and the archivists and start to develop a prototype," says Abby Smith, preservation program officer with the Council on Library and Information Resources, which is working on the project....
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