Problems of Long-Term Archiving of Digital Resources on the Example of the CREDO Project

Long-term archiving of digital resources is a serious problem that has not yet found sufficient attention from the IT industry, nor widely available solutions. Preservation of usability of stored resources in the digital archive requires not only reliable storage of data files, but also the possibility of efficient searching, as well as verification of data authenticity and its correct interpretation both in the technical (data format, etc.), and semantic sense (information understanding in an appropriate context, etc.). The paper discusses these problems and presents solutions adopted in the CREDO project.