27 Aug
2011
27 Aug
'11
12:53 p.m.
On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 18:37:35 +0100 (BST)
ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote:
Anyway, they may be docuemnted _now_ but in 100 eyars
time (or whatever)
it may not even be obviosu that it is an image file.
Thats why you need a Digital
Rosetta Stone. E.G. store a description of
the file format in plain ASCII along the image file. You also may
include source code to read / decode the image to a plain bitmap. Even
if there isn't a compiler for that ancient language, a human can read,
understand and translate the algorithm from an old to a new programming
language. Additionally: Keep in mind that proper digital archiving
involves converting from old to new file formats. (This rules out lossy
compression technics for obvious reasons.)
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