from New York Times
Even Digital Memories Can Fade
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Yet another update from the digital preservation front. Sometimes the alarmist tone of how unprepared we all are in terms of saving our digital resources for the next generation can mask other interests. Note, for example, near the start of the New York Times article, that the person who said: "To save a digital file for, let's say, a hundred years is going to take a lot of work" is actually the president of a consulting firm which deals with (digital) media management - surely it would not be in his interests to say that digital archiving is easy. For another argument on why digital media will not be that easily "lost" if stored in the most commonly used digital format, see this older article by Simon Garfinkel, "The Myth of Doomed Data ".