[rollei_list] Re: OT: Film vs Digital to preserve archives
- From: Peter J Nebergall <iusar4s@xxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:36:04 -0500
My first wife helped develop the IBM Displaywriter, with its 2 8-inch
floppies, the "toaster" -- ever even SEEN an 8-inch floppy? And I'm not
that ancient.
Pick up an 8 year old 3.5 floppy. Odds are it will be DS, and you can't
rven read it. Unless you regularly transfer data, hard drive to hard
drive, digital data is FAR MORE FRAGILE than the human memory. At least
it takes 75+ years for a human to become obsolete...
Its all just a way for manufacturers to shove you the latest trendy &^%$.
"Practical?" who you kiddin? Whatever can be portrayed as fashionable
to the rich and clueless...
PJ Nebergall
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:00:46 -0700 "Jeff Kelley" <thocker@xxxxxxxxxxx>
writes:
> Carlos, museums and similar organizations have struggled with this
> issue of
> digital archiving for decades. It is not easily solved.
>
> I think it telling that I can still easily view and print my
> great-grandfather's film negatives but can no longer access 5.25
> inch
> computer floppy diskettes that I, myself, produced not that many
> years
> ago....
>
> -Jeff-
>
>
> >The RUG Digistar archives loss due to a disk crack
> >recalled me the issue about to image and data in
> >general preservation; I found an official site about
> >the issue containing an expert conference on the
> >topic, some of my very general conclusions reading the
> >article are that film and microfilm are still the best
> >and cheapest way to archive images and documents,
> >however the fact digital technology is producing
> >valuable documents requires to establish systems to
> >preserve these documents and they are very expensive
> >in part because they demand an upgrading for short
> >periods:
> >
>
>http://www.archives.gov/preservation/conferences/papers-2003/puglia.html
> >
> >All the best
> >Carlos
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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