Persistent Archives Challenges

• Maintain ability to retrieve information from a collection over 400 years

  • The technology used to instantiate the collection changes every 3 years
  • The technology used for data presentation changes every 4 years
  • Technology used to archive the collection changes every 5 years

• Need an Infrastructure Independent description of the collection

  • Ability to rebuild the collection from the archived information

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