Just was out & about in the car and heard on National Radio aninterview
with a [Canadian|US] archivist in the country for some work. The
relevant point to this list was the specific mention of open source
formats and software in the context of creating records that would be
usable in the future.
On a related topic, my boss today got a MO (Magneto-Optical) drive, and has set it up fine under Linux. The MO media (size of floppy, with 640MB) is supposed to last something like 100 years and 1,000,000 writes. they cost about $25 bucks each though, depending on capacity.
A month ago we tried unsuccessfully to get data off a 4yr old CD-R, leading to the search for something more stable.
Cheers, Carl.
