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Ancestry.com - Will Your Data Survive You?

Article by Candace L. Doriott on the long-term storage problems of computer technology, and methods to improve longevity of digital data. From her Bits & Bytes column in Genealogical Computing.

Care of Archival Compact Disks

Detailed recommendations from the National Parks Service on a variety of artifact conservation issues.

Care of Archival Digital and Magnetic Media

Detailed recommendations from the National Parks Service on a variety of artifact conservation issues.

Preservation of Magnetic Media

Detailed recommendations from the National Parks Service on a variety of artifact conservation issues.

Protecting and handling magnetic media

From the National Archives of Australia.

Protecting and handling optical discs

From the National Archives of Australia.