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Download full textCooper, Brian; Garcia-Molina, Hector – 2001
Digital materials are vulnerable to a number of different kinds of failures, including decay of the digital media, loss due to hackers and viruses, accidental deletions, natural disasters, and bankruptcy of the institution holding the collection. Digital archives can best survive failures if they have made several copies of their collections at…
Descriptors: Archives, Electronic Libraries, Information Networks, Information Sources
