Want your photos to survive for decades? A digital archivist explains what to do
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Consumer behavior is normalizing around ephemeral storage, but the underlying risk is institutional—companies, labs, and governments are just as sloppy with long-term digital preservation. If your organization has any regulatory, historical, or IP obligation, treat archival strategy as a separate system from day-to-day cloud storage and budget for format migration over decades, not years.
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