Very interesting read.
Another example comes from the pharmaceutical industry. They are required
by law to keep all information about a drug for 100 years, or as long as
the drug is on sale plus another 50 years or so. Since the information
associated with any drug is _very_ voluminous, they have dug rather deep
into information logistics (if that's the right thing to call it).
Their main trade-off is between availability of the info on one hand, and
archive space and longevity on the other. And to make a long story short,
all the info starts off as _digital_ files and end up as micro- _film_
(paper is redundant because of space requirement).
The moral must be that if you want your photographs to be more than
contemporary, don't use digital...:-)
Jostein
(Testing Eudora 5.1 email client.)
At 19:20 02.12.2002 +0000, you wrote:
Hi,
observers and participants in discussions about the relative merits of
digital and paper archiving may be amused by this story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2534391.stm
In summary, a 1980s version of Domesday has been unreadable for 16 years
because the digital technology they stored it on went out-of-date. The
original is still quite readable after almost 1,000 years.
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Cheers,
Bob
Best,
Jostein
http://oksne.net