Thread: Publishing: The Revolutionary Future
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Old 02-22-2010, 07:22 AM   #19
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Originally Posted by Ben Thornton View Post
Early in the process? Huge amounts of information are already held exclusively in a digital format - including financial data, for example - for which prevention of corruption (e.g. storage with non-repudiation features), disaster tolerance and recovery, archiving and back-up of many flavours &c. &c. are a well understood science.
Well, in fairness to his point there are also huge amounts of information held exclusively in digital format that can't practically be accessed anymore because even if the media aren't corrupt the hardware to access that media no longer exists (practically speaking, anyway).

The absolute risk with digital media is probably higher than with paper, unless we take precautions.
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