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Heroic measures: reflections on the possibility and purpose of digital preservation

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International Conference on Digital Libraries archive
Proceedings of the third ACM conference on Digital libraries table of contents

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Pages: 152 - 161

Year of Publication: 1998

ISBN:0-89791-965-3

Author

David M. Levy

Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA

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SIGIR: ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval
SIGLINK: Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Web
SIGWEB: ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Web

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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	1	Preserving Digital Information: Report of the Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information,. 1996, Commission on Preservation and Access and The Research Libraries Group: Washington, D.C. and Mountain View, CA.
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	10	David M. Levy, Fixed or fluid?: document stability and new media, Proceedings of the 1994 ACM European conference on Hypermedia technology, p.24-31, September 19-23, 1994, Edinburgh, Scotland [doi>10.1145/192757.192760]
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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
H. Information Systems
H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
H.3.7 Digital Libraries
Subjects: Systems issues

Additional Classification:
H. Information Systems
H.2 DATABASE MANAGEMENT
H.2.7 Database Administration
Subjects: Security, integrity, and protection

K. Computing Milieux
K.6 MANAGEMENT OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS

General Terms:
Languages, Management, Security, Standardization

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