25 Apr
2008
25 Apr
'08
8:27 a.m.
Quoting Peter Jeremy, who wrote on Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 07:39:17AM +1000 ..
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 07:30:58AM -1000, Tim Newsham
wrote:
PGP successfully did this (primarily to work-around US crypto laws):
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=7024
Archiving digital data is actually a major problem: Not only do you
need to be able to physically read the media but you need to be able
to interpret the bits that you read. This probably means access to
the software that was used to create it (more data to archive) running
Yeah... can you say "Microsoft Office" files?
--
Wilko Bulte wilko(a)FreeBSD.org
I guess
we need to start archiving all software on acid-free archival
paper, then. It's the only way it'll survive.
And not necessarily in human readable form -- how about some format
that is very easy to ocr with minimal errors and error correcting codes?