Long-Term Records Management

These series of short movies are perfect illustrations of the issues concerning long-term preservation such as missing metadata, bit rot, incompatible formats, media degradation, etc. Just check it out on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKnsZZzuUr4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbBa6Oam7-w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yun9hkPPF9M
See also http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu/ and http://www.wepreserve.eu/ for the useful information.