This is good info. This will be especially good for materials being saved for future generations. Pictures and such.
Good stuff. Get it, even if you don't store much info on CD and DVD. And yes, glue on labels shorten the life of these discs...
http://www.itl.nist.gov/div895/carefordisc/index.html
Guide: Care and Handling Guide for the Preservation of CDs and DVDs, CLIR and NIST joint project
NIST Special Publication 500-252, October 2003, Final
Except for the cover and some of the introduction, the content in both the NIST and CLIR publications is the same.
Links are on page. If nothing else, get the "Quick One-Page Reference"

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