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Ensuring the Longevity of Digital Information

  • 1. RAND Corporation

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Digital documents are replacing paper in the most dramatic record-keeping revolution since the invention of printing. Is the current generation of these documents doomed to be lost forever? Note: this paper is an expanded version of the article “Ensuring the Longevity of Digital Documents” that appeared in the January 1995 edition of Scientific American (Vol. 272, Number 1, pp. 42-7).

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