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标题：The Data Preservaton Problem
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作者：Carole E. Scott ; Susan A. Smith
期刊名称：B Quest
电子版ISSN：1084-3981
出版年度：2006
出版社：Richards College of Business, University of West Georgia
摘要：Today public and private archives and libraries are experiencing a preservation crisis as they seek to preserve and make readily available an enormous amount of data recorded in now obsolete, decaying formats, and they are drowning in a rapidly growing tsunami of new data that includes billions of records in digital form that has thrown them into a turbulent and uncharted preservation morass. The earliest methods of recording text, such as stone and clay tablets, were more durable than a more recent method, vellum, which, in turn, was more durable than paper, which only in recent years became as durable as it was over a century ago after we returned to using acid-free paper. While it is very difficult to preserve paper for a few centuries, some clay tablets have lasted 5,000 years. Vastly older cave paintings created before there were any written languages still exist.