Towards Passive, Migration-Free, Standardized, Long-Term Database Archival

"How would you archive databases for the next 60 years such that they incur no migration cost, and they remain usable in 2080?" This was an open challenge raised by digital preservation experts from the Landesarchiv of Baden-W¨urttemberg [12], who, similar to other memory institutions (archives, museums, libraries, etc.), have faced several challenges in archiving culturally significant, historic data stored in digital databases since early 1960s.