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Therefore it is pleasing to say that there is a strong argument to support the view
that besides being useful for preservation, these components can perform another
important function which benefits current users.
The argument is based on the following two observations:
E-science infrastructure enables users to discover and access a huge amount of
digitally encoded information. However the number of resources available must
mean that most of these digital resources are unfamiliar to any particular user -
in OAIS terms this would be outside the user's Knowledge Base.
the function of the preservation infrastructures is to ensure that digitally encoded
information - which is unfamiliar because of the passage of time and changes in
the Knowledge Base.
Therefore the preservation infrastructure makes unfamiliar data understandable and
usable - which benefits both future generation and, most importantly, current users
also.
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