Vxa.7z -

VXA is an archival storage architecture developed at MIT to solve the problem of —the risk that data becomes unreadable over time as compression formats change and original decoders disappear. Key Concepts of VXA

While VXA itself uses a modified ZIP format, a file named VXA.7z is likely a distribution of the VXA source code or research materials: VXA.7z

: Bryan Ford (the lead researcher) provides the tools and datasets on the MIT PDOS website . Researchers often repackage these tools in 7z format for high compression. VXA is an archival storage architecture developed at