The challenges of long term archiving Building libraries or archives is not easy : Time consuming, Legal issue, Technology is a serious challenge on the long term, The challenges in : Acquisition What will be archived ? Who will submit the works and how ? (manual ? automatic ?) Legal issue (copyright/author rights) Archiving and long term storage/preservation Lifetime of storage Migration and data conversion Periodic transfert to correct storage Data conversion (format ?) Emulation of software (viable ?) Accessiblity/visibility and distribution Interfaces (from Web to other archives) - Slow access ? Fast access ? (re)distribution of the archived data