Problems with Digital Archiving

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Problems with Digital Archiving

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1barney67
Edited: Dec 15, 2010, 10:49 am

This is a brief article about problems with digital archiving in the music industry. I wonder if some librarian could comment on digital archiving in the book world. DVD, for example, strikes me as a less durable medium than microfiche, which was valuable to me in genealogy research.

(Click on Dec. 14 link)
http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/archivalissues/index.html

This article contains another link to Rolling Stone magazine about the same issue.