Re: OT Re: Digital Storage

2002-01-18 Thread Frantisek Vlcek
PA I would agree with TIFF as a format if it weren't so loosely followed. You can PA never be sure if a TIFF saved by one application will be readable by PA another, in PA my experience. The best format for future readability would be plain bitmap, without any compression (or just some easy

OT Re: Digital Storage

2002-01-17 Thread Jarbo Petter
I've had the pleasure of thinking about digital archiving at work. I work at a Neurophysiology dept at a hospital and we produce a lot of digital data and one of our great problems is how to properly archive every test we perform. The outcome of our intensive thinking :) would be Magneto-optical

Re: OT Re: Digital Storage

2002-01-17 Thread Patrick White
Petter Jarbo wrote: I've had the pleasure of thinking about digital archiving at work. I work at a Neurophysiology dept at a hospital and we produce a lot of digital data and one of our great problems is how to properly archive every test we perform. The outcome of our intensive thinking :) would

Re: OT Re: Digital Storage

2002-01-17 Thread gfen
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Patrick White wrote: My pick is CD-Rs with JPEGs on them. Some CD-Rs are touted at surviving 100 years (?) under ideal storage conditions, so they meet media longevity. I don't trust such numbers, especially considering CDR has only been around for what, five years?

Re: OT Re: Digital Storage

2002-01-17 Thread Peter Alling
At 05:16 PM 1/17/2002 -0500, you wrote: On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Patrick White wrote: My pick is CD-Rs with JPEGs on them. Some CD-Rs are touted at surviving 100 years (?) under ideal storage conditions, so they meet media longevity. I don't trust such numbers, especially considering