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Principles for digital preservation

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Focusing on end users' needs rather than those of archiving institutions.

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          cover image Communications of the ACM
          Communications of the ACM  Volume 49, Issue 2
          Next-generation cyber forensics
          February 2006
          127 pages
          ISSN:0001-0782
          EISSN:1557-7317
          DOI:10.1145/1113034
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