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two decades. As pointed out by Roger Bilham, our work for northern India exhumed
more than a millennium of paper materials, whereas our discs crashed three times
during the project. The promise of an electronic repository is that, rather like nuclear
waste, it has to be guarded by someone for the next millennia. The written word in
the past five millennia, despite being in many languages is always to some degree
readable. In contrast I can't read archival tapes from 1990.
Are we unnecessarily paranoid about society's ability to guarantee survival of
electronic archives?
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