The Infinite Archive: Finding a way to save digital content for future generations (04 Jan 2004)

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The Infinite Archive: Finding a way to save digital content for future generations (04 Jan 2004)
There are two approaches to digital archiving: emulation and migration. With emulation, people move architectures backward in time by writing software that mimics, say, an Intel 286 chip. Using that software lets you run the old software the chip ran. With migration, on the other hand, archivists take documents created in an obsolete format and simply convert them to the latest format. When another, newer format comes along, the documents will be converted again, ad infinitum.

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