This is in today's Wall Street Journal (requires subscription)...
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London

In a vault beneath the British Library here, Jeremy Leighton John
grapples with a formidable challenge in digital life. Dr. John, the
library's first curator of eManuscripts, is working on ways to archive
the deluge of computer data swamping scientists so that future
generations can authenticate today's discoveries and better understand
the people who made them.

His task is only getting harder. Scientists who collaborate via email,
Google, YouTube, Flickr and Facebook are leaving fewer paper trails,
while the information technologies that do document their
accomplishments can be incomprehensible to other researchers and
historians trying to read them. Computer-intensive experiments and the
software used to analyze their output generate millions of gigabytes
of data that are stored or retrieved by electronic systems that
quickly become obsolete
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125139942345664387.html

-- 
Bruce L. White, CRM, PMP
Orange County, CA
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