"digital preservation"... isn't. What file format? What storage medium? Good archives are all about the long, very long term. Sometimes the "we're borrowing i

"digital preservation"... isn't. What file format? What storage medium? Good archives are all about the long, very long term. Sometimes the "we're borrowing it from our ((great-)grand)children" long term. The storage mediums we plebeians use in our daily activities are absolutely not archival-quality. Stories abound of institutions struggling to access old numeric archives. Here's just one off of the top of my head: https://www.nsa.gov/Press-Room/Press-Releases-Statements/Press-Release-View/Article/3884041/nsa-releases-copy-of-internal-lecture-delivered-by-computing-giant-rear-adm-gra/ https://www.nsa.gov/Press-Room/Press-Releases-Statements/Pre... The other aspect is that archivists are routinely underfunded. The scanning equipment and storage systems are expensive. The archivists need to be trained to use them. As something that is by nature rarely used, it routinely gets the budgetary short straw.