CA The goals of this plan include the continued collecting of materials regardless of evolving digital formats, the long-term preservation of said materials and ensuring access to them for the American people.
Phrases
<P1> There is widespread support for a national initiative in long term preservation of digital content across a very broad range of stakeholder groups outside the traditional scholarly community (p.4) <warrant> <P2> Approaching persistent archiving from the perspective of infrastructure allows system designers to decouple the data storage from the various components that allow users to manage the data. Potentially, any component can be "swapped out" without affecting the rest of the system. Theoretically, many of the technical problems in archiving can be separated into their components, and as innovation occurs, those components can be updated so that the archive remains persistent in the context of rapid change. Similarly, as the storage media obsolesce, the data can be migrated without affecting the overall integrity of the system. (p.7)
Conclusions
RQ Scenario-planning exercises may help expose assumptions that could ultimately be limiting in the future.
