from CBS News -
Bye, Tech: Dealing With Data Rot
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Keeping Up With Data Rot



from The New York Times -
Should You Worry About Data Rot?
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Not an optimistic view, given the mismatch between the amount of personal digital artefacts being created and the effort given over to implementing an intuitive, reliable and cost-effective process of digital archiving.

"Data rot refers mainly to problems with the medium on which information is stored. Over time, things like temperature, humidity, exposure to light, being stored not-very-good locations like moldy basements, make this information very difficult to read. The second aspect of data rot is actually finding the machines to read them. And that is a real problem."

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