On Wednesday 12. July 2006 21:03, Marco Bizzarri wrote: > >Long term archival of electronic data is a BIG problem in the >archivist community. I remember, a few years ago, a paper describing >the problem of historical (20+ years old) data which were running the >risk of being lost simply because of lacking of proper hardware.
I've been reading probate protocols from the 17th century in original, which are still in perfect condition. It's quite a contrast to the present discussion, talking about a few decades. It's very serious, really. A few centuries from now, our age may appear as a black hole in history, because of our monumental lack of care in the preservation of contemporary data. -- Leif Biberg Kristensen | Registered Linux User #338009 http://solumslekt.org/ | Cruising with Gentoo/KDE ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
