Baseline, standardised radiographs will be copied onto CD from the hospital PACs (archiving) system.
If the scientist needs the data in the future, it can be retrieved (eg, submission to a campus archiving system, data submissions to NCBI).
Furthermore, archiving systems preserve message metadata important information such as where an e-mail came from, when it was sent, and the server path that's lost when messages are simply copied to disc or tape.
Archiving systems would store influenza samples for an extended time.
Once the footage is archived, the system starts a security trail of everyone who watches, edits, or otherwise interacts with the video.
The archiving system was provided by another company, which HCL and NI have not yet named.
Inside the organisation, the archiving system means that almost anything more than 15 days old will have been stored somewhere.
Myler's copy was also lost from NI's email archive system in a hardware failure on 18 March 2010.
The jury heard that from the period before 2005, very few messages survived simply because the company had no archiving system.
"The electronic records archives system may be able to take in a tremendous amount of e-mail and other records," Mr. Brachfeld said.
The BBC had aimed to create an integrated digital production and archiving system allowing staff to handle all aspects of video and audio content from their desks.
