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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/07/2014 07:06 PM, Chuck Reti
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This paragraph caught my attention. Of course nobody talks much
about the downside of using digital media any more - it's a given.
Perhaps we have no choice but I think that in the long haul, unless
some new technology comes along most of what we are dedicating to
digital media will be lost. Of course that's just my opinion:<br>
<blockquote type="cite">By digitizing these archives, Cariani hopes
to keep them intact and available to students of history for years
and years down the road. The digital preservation files the
archive creates will be held at the Library of Congress. "They
have told us that their mandate is to preserve that material for
the life of the republic plus 500 years," Cariani says. "I don't
know how they start that clock or how they do that, but that's
what they told us and we decided that was long enough." (Of
course, digital preservation has its own challenges, but Cariani
prefers not to dwell on that: "I start feeling nauseous when I
start thinking about how you actually assure digital
preservation," she adds.)</blockquote>
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Have a nice day! --greg<br>
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