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> Digital archives don't degrade over time

They certainly do. File formats become obsolete, the drives can accumulate errors, when copying the files from an old drive to a new one, some files may get forgotten about, someone loses some metadata, etc.

https://www.getty.edu/news/preventing-digital-decay/




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