Ain't nothin' permanent 'cept death and taxes, baby!
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
At 10:36 AM 2/9/03 -0600, Robert Patterson wrote:I'm gradually relinquishing the notion that a hard-copy is necessary for long-term archive. PDF is robust and portable and is ubiquitous enough that it will be supported in some form as long as there are computers.
Yow.
My friend Greg Sanford is Vermont's state archivist, and he'd lose even
more hair if he heard you say that!
So called "permanent" digital archives just don't exist. The upgrading of
hardware and software and the obsoleting of previous hardware, software,
and formats continues so quickly that archives only 10 and 20 years old
have become unreadable. It requires not only the software, but hardware
that will run the software. Adobe is no more a permanent fixture in the
software world than any other company ... and even if it were, on what
hardware would those files be stored? On line, then? And with what backup?
(Anybody else a victim of one of the now-defunct online disk storage
companies?)
For now, paper remains the only real archiving medium. Much as I'd like it
to be otherwise, we haven't stepped over the threshhold to permanent
storage of virtual copies.
Here: http://maltedmedia.com/books/papers/sl-archv.html
Dennis
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