Hi, all,
missed the start of the tread, but:

Museum professionals here always commend to store analogue paper copies. But for the period of a "few hundred years", one should have a look on the paper quality, the print technique, the storage (most used: ring binders) and the filing system. And most of all: a fire protected environment.

Let me direct you to another problem near to it (resembling known problems with record cards): How do you prevent illicit filing (see the Drewe/Myatt case), wrong filing or illicit removing of files?

Best


Christian


Am 17.07.2012 15:35, schrieb Anne Lane:
[log in to unmask]" type="cite">Gail, you've answered your own question. Not only in the short term, but the long term. I assume you're talking about accession records? Digital records have to be migrated forward with every change in technology/formatting, and require something besides the naked human eye to be read. Properly cared for, especially if backed up with another set of hard copies stored in another site, paper is good for oh, another few hundred years.
Anne T. Lane
Collections Manager-at-large



On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Anderson, Gail K. <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Colleagues,

For the record (pun intended), are you scanning and getting rid of all paper?  If so, what is the back up if the digital records can't be read at some point in the future?

Thoughts?

Thanks,

Gail Kana Anderson

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