Microfilming in Ontario: Benefits of Microfilm over Digital Storage

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Microfilming in Ontario

• Benefits of Microfilm over Digital Storage

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Microfilming in Ontario

• When it comes to backing up your organizations
  data it is important to remember how valuable
  microfilming in Ontario can be when compared to
  digital media. Microfilming in Ontario has been
  around for over a century and has remained
  virtually the same. Digital storage devices,
  although convenient and able to store mass
  amounts of data, can be unreliable at times and
  may be inaccessible in fifty, or even twenty
  years time.

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Microfilming in Ontario

• Remember tape drives or the 10 inch floppy
  drive? If you are old enough to remember these
  early digital storage devices and have data
  stored on them, you probably also know how
  difficult it can be to retrieve the information
  off of these devices. Since then, we have seen
  different types of internal and external hard
  drives, CD and DVD formats, USB jump drives,
  solid state drives, and the list goes on. As
  digital storage devices continue to evolve, there
  is no way to tell how you easily you will be able
  to retrieve the data on these devices in the
  future.

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Microfilming in Ontario

• During the evolution of digital storage devices,
  one thing has remained a constant. Microfilming
  in Ontario, or microfiche began in 1839 and had
  various minor changes for the first 100 years,
  but since the 1930s it has remained the same and
  is one of the most reliable ways to store backups
  of critical data. Microfilm is a data
  preservation format that is commonly used in
  academic, research and government fields, in
  order to save a backup of data that if stored
  properly, will be viewable 500 years from now.

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Microfilming in Ontario

• Microfilm is essentially a miniature picture of
  an original-size document that can be viewed by
  the naked eye and with a microfilm reader which
  is basically a light source and a magnifying
  glass, which is often found in libraries.
  Microfilm is stored in plastic or metal
  photography reels and is easily stored and
  preserved.
• Some of the major benefits of microfilming in
  Ontario include
• Reduced storage space compared to paper documents
• Reduces cost of reproduction
• Document life expectancy of up to 500 years
• Court admissible since microfilms cant be
  tampered with

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Microfilming in Ontario

• Because of modern digital technologies, the use
  of microfilm in academic and research archiving
  has dropped, but the demand for microfilming in
  Ontario still exists. Microfilming is also
  discovering ways to advance in the modern world
  with new developments in color microfilm and
  document conversion products. Microfilm is now
  finding its way into the digital market as well,
  using new technologies to convert microfilm to be
  used on the internet.

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Microfilming in Ontario

• A document systems company can provide
  information and help you understand how
  microfilming in Ontario can be incorporated into
  your information management system for your
  organization. Microfilming provides for the safe
  archival of nearly any document and can keep
  business-critical information safe for future
  generations to come.

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About the Author

• Kevin D'Arcy is VP of Sales and Marketing for
  MES Hybrid Document Systems, Ontario's leading
  document scanning and document management
  supplier.
• For more information about our Microfilming in
  Ontario services, visit http//www.mesltd.ca/serv
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