So I've been putting a lot of thought into archiving techniques, methodologies of managing on-line, near-line, and off-line data, as well as addressing issues of data redundancy and permenance (both in terms of degradation of the storage media and the obselescence of same, for example, my 44 meg SyQuest backups might still be good, but readers are few and far between, while there are plenty of floppy drives, but I doubt my 14 year old disks are still readable).

Anyhow, I realized that surely there are people who have already thought about this alot more than I have, and probably have written up their thoughts, so I turn to the information specialists who read this blog: David? Ann? Can you give me a pointer?