18 May
2005
18 May
'05
8:13 p.m.
On Wed, 18 May 2005, Jim Leonard wrote:
Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
You're interpretting what Dwight is saying within your own context.
Dwight is referring to the content itself, not the media on which the
content (The Archive) is stored.
It seems that may of you are missing the point.
The archives
are intended to be useable in say 500 years ( moved to
future media ). Any proprietary application like WinRAR
is useless for this purpose.
I think that *you* are missing the point that *no* archive can last that long
except maybe paper. (I say this because the media reader for paper is... all humans. 100 years from now I wouldn't expect to be
able to read a
DVD-ROM, for comparison.) Most digital archivsts agree that the goal is
not 100 years, but 10-20 so that it can be transferred to the new
generation of media every so often.
This is now a given to anyone that's given it a couple moment's thought.
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