Better archiving technologies are extending the shelf lives of data you don't want people to see.

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Two main initiatives are National Academic Research and Collaborations Information System ( NARCIS): the national portal for those who are in search of information about researchers and their work and Data Archiving and Networked Services ( DANS) to provide access to datasets by developing data infrastructures in organisations.

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The volume of structured data was relatively low, meaning that database archiving would not reduce the storage footprint by much.

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