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The Digital Black Hole

Article “The Digital Black Hole” by Jonas Palm, National Archives of Sweden, now online

The article presents an analysis of costs for digitizing and long-term storage at the Riksarkivet (National Archives, RA) in Stockholm, Sweden. This example includes forecasts of cost development for the next few years which may help other institutions in analysing their own costs and budgeting for long-term storage.

To download the article go to:
http://www.tape-online.net/docs/Palm_Black_Hole.pdf
(445 KB).

The author:
Jonas Palm is Director, Head of the Preservation Department, National Archives of Sweden, Stockholm
jonas.palm@riksarkivet.ra.se

The article is published in the framework of the TAPE project: Training for Audiovisual Preservation in Europe,
http://www.tape-online.net

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