Message from the owner(s)
A new category of information appliance is emerging, that of an Open Intelligent Archive. Archive features provide a background of trust for storing, retrieving, and managing data over decades at a time. Open Source and open standards help to eliminate proprietary “information silos” (anathema to long-term data storage) and to coordinate efforts of many players. Intelligent data access methods help application designers create and evolve innovative uses for the wealth of information implicit in archived data.