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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