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在信息爆炸的今天,电脑正是处理及存放这些浩瀚无际的资料的好帮手,一个不大的磁盘,能容纳一个小小图书馆的资料。但是这些由0与1所组成的资料,由于科技发展的步伐太快,以致于很少有人会仔细地去想,要如何长久保存它们。有些专家告诉人们:0与1的数字化资料可以世世代代永久的被保存下来。可是人们渐渐发现,绝大部分我们打算长期保存的重要资料,不但无法藉由现有的媒介延续到永恒,有些甚至维持不到十年。这样,除了政府及企业记录保存受到威胁以外,就是宝贵的文化遗产也都受影响,例如新的音乐、文学作品的真迹手稿及学术论文等等,这些有许多都是仅仅以数位方式储存,而没有任何的实体备份。
Today, in the information explosion, the computer is a good helper for handling and storing these expansive data, a small disk that can hold the information of a small library. But these data, made up of 0s and 1s, are too fast for technology to evolve so few people think carefully about how to preserve them for a long time. Some experts tell people that 0 and 1 digitized data can be preserved forever and forever. However, people are gradually finding out that the vast majority of the important information we intend to preserve for long periods of time can not be sustained by the existing medium for an eternity, some even for less than a decade. In this way, precious cultural heritage is affected in addition to the threat posed by government and corporate recordkeeping, such as new musical and authentic manuscripts and academic papers on literary works, many of which are stored digitally only There is no physical backup.