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a 1980s version of Domesday has been unreadable for 16 years because the digital technology they stored it on went out-of-date.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. --- Cheers, Bob
Best, Jostein http://oksne.net
