On Mar 26, 2009, at 15:27 , Bob W wrote:
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4836762n%3fsource=search_video
Must be a slow news day. This is old hat.
Digital data archiving is not static like analog data
archiving is. It
does not rely upon the permanence of the media it is stored on.
Digital data archiving relies upon replication and maintenance.
Forever. Period. NOTHING has changed about that fact.
If you want to store your photographs in the most archival form
available, print them with pigment inks onto archival materials and
then lock those away in a properly set up vault with controlled
temperature, humidity and lighting. Never look at them. IN the eons
from now when your work is removed from the vault ... to fade in a
hundred years or two at last ... someone will note a great
photographer who was never recognized in their own time.
Because the work was being preserved, not being looked at. ;-)
Or make 2 prints.
I still think putting it on the Internet - in the cloud, as it were -
stands the best chance of some form of it being around and easily
viewable the longest.
WayBack machines and NetBots get better and better, and they DO change
their storage media to keep up with the times.
Joseph McAllister
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http://gallery.me.com/jomac
http://web.me.com/jomac/show.me/Blog/Blog.html
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