... Data retrieval Within the UK, constructive recording of incidents of crime, their investigation and outcomes is a default responsibility firmly placed upon Police Forces, being integral to the day-to-day business activity of policing. Historically, management of those crime records has...

... to degrade.  The space agency NASA has already lost digital records sent back by its early probes, and in 1995 the US government came close to losing a vast chunk of national census data, thanks to the obsolescence of its data retrieval technology.  Our digital heritage – only a few decades old – is already...

... Electronics Record keeping Data storage Data retrieval Systems design The capture and cataloguing of electronic records is a huge problem for archivists. The archivist is hampered on two fronts, first by the sheer number of electronic records produced, and second through the archivist’s...