Digital preservation or backing up data for future access has been increasingly challenging for the past few years. While technology has advanced in a very fast pace in terms of storage capabilities, these advances are actually placing the data collected in the past at risk. The information gathered used technologies that are no longer used today. A good example is the data stored in a floppy disk. This type of storage device was very useful from mid to late 90s. Today, you’ll be required to purchase a separate hardware just to read a floppy disk. The common mass-storage device as of this writing is the portable hard drive but it can be easily replaced after a decade with a new hardware. (more…)