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What do you mean by "documents"? Mark A. Matienzo Digital Archivist, Manuscripts and Archives Yale University Library On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 5:36 AM, Mike Taylor <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Does anyone out there know what recent studies predict for the > lifetime of digitally archived and preserved documents? > > For example, there is a long and mostly pretty successful tradition of > preserving journal articles as paper in bound volumes, and experiment > shows that this approach is usually good for hundreds of years. It > *seems* obvious to me that the physical resilience of paper is > outweighed by the ability to make infinite perfect copies of digital > documents, but obviously we haven't had hundreds of years of > experience in which empirically test that idea. > > Are there any published studies that predict and compare the long-term > preservation ability and cost efficiency of physical and digital > archives? I would like to either back up or refute my intuition! > > Thanks, > -- Mike. >