Digital media inventory algorithm for long-term digital keeping problem

Abstract

Abstract The previously considered problem of long-term digital keeping involves a multi-faceted integrated approach to its solution. This article is devoted to the algorithmic solution to the problems of reliability and technological aging of digital storage media, as well as changes in the hardware and software storage environment that occur over the long-term digital keeping. The article provides a brief overview of digital storage media with an estimate of the terms of reliable guaranteed storage of data on them. The problem of changing the hardware-software environment for storing digital data, the cause of which is the limited life of the software and hardware of information systems, is considered. As an algorithmic solution to the problems presented for the problem of long-term digital keeping, an algorithm for inventorying digital media is proposed. Its main aspects and rules of practical application are considered. The connection with the previously proposed algorithm for controlling the authenticity of digital data is indicated. The article concludes that the proposed algorithm, tested by practice, will solve the problem posed in the article. In conclusion, the development prospects of the proposed algorithm are considered.