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When an aggregation of records has been selected
for permanent preservation, that means
that at the time of selection there is
no foreseeable expiration date for the need of retaining them.
The period of 300 years seems to have been set
just in order to define a span of time within
which all of our current technological
and organizational frameworks and solutions
will be predictably superseded,
so that to declare that an aggregation of records
has to last longer than 300 years would amount
to say that they must be able to continue to exist regardless
of our current tools, programs and utilities.
It is obvious that nobody could dare state
that an aggregation of records has to be preserved for the eternity,
inasmuch as such an assertion does not make sense at all:
even the Universe is not expected to be everlasting.
Besides, new events and needs
can modify subsequent evaluation criteria
and drive all those who are in charge of appraising
to review their standards: just to give a trivial example,
if the mankind should face the consequences
of a thermonuclear war or of the impact
of a gigantic asteroid,
certainly problems concerning
appraisal and preservation
would be viewed from a different perspective!
MASSIMILIANO GRANDI
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