Longevity Of CD Media
Longevity Of CD Media, Research At The Library Of Congress
Basil Manns, and Chandru J. Shahani,
Library of Congress, Washington DC,
September 2003. (14 pages, PDF). "This paper focuses first and mostly
on the natural aging of the Library’s existing CD-ROM, mostly audio,
collection; and some initial findings of the on going accelerated aging
studies dealing with both ROMs and
re-writable CDs." (More at
Slashdot
-- "Myth of the 100 year CD-ROM".)
Chart shows
BLER -- Block Error Rate
for three test runs, 1996,
1999, and 2003.
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