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http://blog.archive.org/2011/06/06/why-preserve-books-the-new-physical-archive-of-the-internet-archive/
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"Coding without comments is like
driving without turn signals."
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Darren New <dne### [at] san rrcom> wrote:
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http://blog.archive.org/2011/06/06/why-preserve-books-the-new-physical-archive-of-the-internet-archive/
Paper certainly endures more for far longer than digital media.
Easy redundancy and distribution should help digital media to survive longer.
But it needs maintenance. It needs people interested in the content to always
make backup copies before the medium starts failing. What if people are no
longer interested in such content?
Ink on paper may survive buried deep within dry sands of time, but harddrives
will be just old worn metal, its contents long lost...
that said, let archivers do it while I comfortably dig my digital copies in my
pocket... :)
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On 6/10/2011 9:39, nemesis wrote:
> Darren New<dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
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http://blog.archive.org/2011/06/06/why-preserve-books-the-new-physical-archive-of-the-internet-archive/
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> Paper certainly endures more for far longer than digital media.
It depends how you do the digitizing. I assume you haven't read Rainbows
End? :-)
> Easy redundancy and distribution should help digital media to survive longer.
> But it needs maintenance. It needs people interested in the content to always
> make backup copies before the medium starts failing.
And to convert the formats, yes. I'm amazed at some of the stuff even in
recent history that has disappeared, like movies that cost hundreds of
millions of dollars to make, or data from the Apollo missions.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"Coding without comments is like
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Darren New escreveu:
> On 6/10/2011 9:39, nemesis wrote:
>> Darren New<dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
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http://blog.archive.org/2011/06/06/why-preserve-books-the-new-physical-archive-of-the-internet-archive/
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>> Paper certainly endures more for far longer than digital media.
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> It depends how you do the digitizing. I assume you haven't read Rainbows
> End? :-)
No, didn't even realize it referred to a book.
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On 6/10/2011 13:31, nemesis wrote:
> No, didn't even realize it referred to a book.
A book in which a large part of the conflict comes from a company that is
digitizing libraries the world over by throwing books into a wood chipper
and blowing the bits down a long tube lined with thousands of small cameras,
then later going to reconstruct the books by looking at all the photographs
of tiny bits of pages and aligning them like a jigsaw puzzle.
Much faster than digitizing them without running them thru a wood chipper first.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"Coding without comments is like
driving without turn signals."
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