October 26, 2020 Alfred
The Museum of Obsolete Media: Tech evolution and the need for continuous data migration
The vast majority of physical media created for data storage is no longer in use. Considering Moore’s Law and the quasi-exponential advancements in technology, we may very well take it for granted that the media supports we use today to store our precious archives will sooner or later be admitted to the ever growing museum of obsolete media. As archivists and developers of archive technologies, we need to acknowledge data migration as a necessity.
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