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Each year destructive events might cause loss of data in members of an archival federation. This paper provides a ‘back-of-the-envelope’ model for the fraction of the federated data collection that survives after a certain number of years. It also discusses some simple parameterizations of factors that contribute to the trade offs between cost and survival of information.
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Support for Dr. Mattmann’s effort was provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology under contract to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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Barkstrom, B.R., Mattmann, C.A. A simple model illustrating the virtue of replication for long-term information preservation. Earth Sci Inform 5, 105–109 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12145-012-0100-4
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12145-012-0100-4