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Originally Posted by Ben Thornton
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.
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It's not that people aren't making efforts to archive. It's that most of the archiving systems are good for short-term disruption, but need to be better-hardened against long-term data loss, major disasters and access with non-proprietary systems. This is primarily a hardware issue, not an intent issue. And it will come in time.