vincevincevince - 3:58 pm on Jul 4, 2007 (gmt 0)

In almost every case, there are conversion utilities from one format to the next. They just need to be converted at the time the format starts to be less supported.

Sure, that takes time and money, but nobody said digital archiving wasn't going to have any of the preservation costs associated with traditional media.

As an example, if I now had anything in Word Perfect, I'd be having it converted to something else now, before it's too late.

The problems we see here are entirely due to archiving projects getting started without the budget required to maintain the archive in the future.