If they need an image that hasn't been digitized, it can be defrosted and scanned in the mine. All of the written information that exists about the collection in card catalogs and logbooks will be in the digital database by the time of the move. But maybe retrieving specific images is not the point. I don't think Bill Gates understands the importance of originals. It is just the opposite, Mr. Wilhelm said.
Burial means different things to different people.
To some it means preservation. To others it means death. Others will think Bill Gates locked up the collection and threw away the key.