[RKDinOKC]

Well, when I was in charge of the Engineering, Drafting, and Graphic Arts at the company I work for part of what I did was integrate the computer into the paper process. Every year I we would make copies of all the original drawings for off-site archive. Each drawing is signed and dated when archived, but also includes the original drawn date. When I got moved from running the department, the process stopped and I think they are going to be in BIG trouble if something happens to the engineering drawing server and it's backups as there is not hard copies kept any more.

The reason I initiated and maintained hard copy archives is that I have experienced on more than one occasion computer hardware corruption that took out both the files and the backups.

One of my current responsibilities is the Media Server where photos are stored. It is stored in with a Digital Asset Management software that not only keeps track of the date of origin but all sorts of metadata associated with each photo including copyright management. This is very common in Digital Asset Management and most companies with valuable digital assets have a least one person working as a librarian to manage the metadata.