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There are several things that I want to discuss with you, all having to do with the digital revolution and your role in it. Then there is digital archiving, which I think is a very significant problem. At present we have more of the raw data in existence from the 1860 census than from the 1960 census. The 1960 census data are mostly stored on magnetic tapes that can no longer be read. And we can't simply assume that somehow this problem is going to get sorted out.