Long term storage - 100 years of digital data

The 20th century brought about an "information revolution" which has forever altered the way we work, communicate, and live. In the 21st century, it is hard to imagine working without an increasingly broad array of supporting technologies and the digital data they provide.The care, management, and preservation of this tidal wave of data has become an increasingly important focus for technology, standards, and policy development. How will we be listening to our music in the next 100 years? How will we sustain our personal and federal records? In the next 100 years, storage technologies will advance tens of generations, and the digital collections preserved on up-to- date storage technologies will need to transition through each new generation, and many times over.This panel will discuss the major challenges of digital preservation, a technology and policy "killer app" for ours and the next generations.