The Mormon church (LDS) are all over this. They have a storage facility dug into a mountain to ensure long-term storage of the millions of rolls of microfilm, and are now working on digitizing some of the rolls. Interesting article here: http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ninchguide/inter views/interview21.html, a National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) interview. Software AND hardware have to be considered.
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The Mormon church (LDS) are all over this. They have a storage facility dug into a mountain to ensure long-term storage of the millions of rolls of microfilm, and are now working on digitizing some of the rolls. Interesting article here: http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ninchguide/inter views/interview21.html, a National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) interview. Software AND hardware have to be considered.