Store, manage, and preserve digital collections with Vault, a flexible and customizable digital repository and preservation solution designed for libraries, heritage and arts organizations, publishers, researchers, and individuals.
Just heard about the Archive-IT Vault. For a one-time fee you can deposit materials to archive. The key is that you pay a “one-time price per gigabyte/terabyte for data deposited in the system, with no additional annual storage fees or data egress costs.” This way you don’t have to continue paying or lose your archive.
One wonders how long the Vault will last. Given that it builds on the Internet Archive‘s experience and infrastructure, it is probably a good bet that it will last some time.
I’m reminded of Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know which is partly about what we might be able to know about the present in a post-ecological disaster future. All sorts of digital records have been preserved and can be searched by AI, but historians still don’t know what happened to a key document.