Library of Congress speaks out regarding frailty of digital data, helps make the case for Millennial Disc™

June 26, 2008

To many, saving a document to a CD is considered long-term storage. It’s a common misperception that digital information is more stable and secure than the printed word. In fact, digital materials are considered more fragile than physical ones.

It seems to go against modern thinking that something printed hundreds of years ago may be better preserved than a family’s digital photographs taken only a decade ago and stored on a CD.

The Library of Congress outlines well the risk of preserving memories in digital format and provides helpful tips to ensuring the protection of valuable digital information.

The institution points out, and rightfully so, that digital preservation cannot be addressed by a single organization or nation. Libraries, archives and other memory institutions all share in the challenge along with individual collectors and creators.

The problem of lacking a long-term digital storage solution is what inspired the Millennial Disc™ inventors to create a disc that would last for centuries . The Millennial Disc™ is the only backwards compatible disc proven to safely store digital information for a thousand years, not the typical eight to 12 years of the current CD, DVD or Blu-ray Disc.

You can learn more about the Library of Congress's digital preservation programs by exploring their Digital Preservation Web site.

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