Lodowcowa epoka archiwizowania zasobów
The ice age of data archiving

Summary/Abstract: Being a part of the information society, we become consumers and producers of more and more information. A large part of it is crucial for the proper implementation of economic and administrative processes, as well as for the shaping of social, cultural or aesthetic attitudes, and therefore data protection becomes a matter of basic importance. In this article, the author explains why archiving resources in digital formats gives good opportunities to protect them in the long term. It defines the features that archives of long-term data preservation should have, and technologies that enable cost-effective building of these systems. Although these technologies are difficult to directly implement by small and medium-sized entities, the offer directed by cloud service providers enables data storage in a safe and cost-effective manner. The article concludes with proposal of the archiving system architecture using third party services dedicated to long-term data storage.

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