Preservation Challenge Radioactive Waste Ian Upshall

This document discusses the challenges of long-term access to digital records for radioactive waste management. It notes that waste records need to be accessible for 50-1000+ years to meet societal, regulatory, and operational needs. Current records use a variety of media like paper, microform, removable digital storage, and material samples. Ensuring the preservation of digital records' provenance, readability, and usability over long periods of time is difficult due to changing technologies and standards. International cooperation is needed to develop standards and best practices for long-term digital records strategies that can transcend organizational changes.