On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 5:36 AM, Mike Taylor <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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! Regarding the cost, this paper from Princeton's DataSpace attempts to estimate the cost-per-gigabyte of storing, and continually migrating to fresh storage over a very long time: "forever". http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01w6634361k Keith