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Archiving, access, and accountability There’s a second life for such strings in archival systems. Archivists and librarians face the task of preserving massive corpora of digital content where identifiers are the primary keys. That raises urgent questions: If a work’s discoverability relies on terse codes, will future researchers be able to reconstruct context? When metadata is insufficient or opaque, accountability—about authorship, consent, licensing—becomes harder to enforce. Thus the production of metadata is not neutral; it is a civic act with implications for rights, histories, and justice.