Challenges
 Long-term viability of digital information (Long-term means long enough to be concerned about the obsolescence of technology, decades or centuries)
Constant and perpetual maintenance, elaborate systems of hardware, software, data, information models & standards that are upgraded or replaced every few years
Accelerating rates of data collection & content creation
No acceptable methods exist today to preserve complex digital objects that contain combination of text, data, images, audio & video
Vulnerable to alteration, eraser & technology obsolescence
Future users will have different needs
Economic & business models to sustain digital preservation
As per Moore’s Law, the computer processing power is doubling in 18 months
In-born content is doubling per year
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