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I gave the example of journal articles. -- Mike. On 24 October 2011 15:15, Mark A. Matienzo <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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. >> > >