The combination will hopefully sidestep the major technical difficulties commonly associated with adopting either migration (loss of information through successive migrations) or emulation (risking that the attempt to recreate a particular environment will be successful). Little by little the discussion about long-term preservation of digital information is leaving the "emulation versus migration debate" and
Jeff Rothenburg, An Experiment in Using Emulation to Preserve Digital Publications, Amsterdam, Bibliothèque nationale des Pays-Bas, 2000, 74 pages, http://www.kb.nl/coop/nedlib/results/NEDLIBemulation.pdf. 7.