8 Aug
2005
8 Aug
'05
10:39 a.m.
and your comparison holds, with respect to people who
are doing the
same thing in film-to-digital conversion with regard to Microfiche,
which have a long proven archival quality in comparison to the dubious
CDR/magnetic medium the data is converted to.
Going all the way digital, I don't feel so bad about. Sure, the
digital images may have some shortcomings, but the microfilm copies
were already of borderline image quality in most places. And
the big win is that 10 mirrors can get copies of the digitized
microfilm and 100 people might download the digitized stuff from
each mirror. (Not that you can't duplicate microfilm, but...)
Now, with most new video formats (including DVD) having copy
protection built in as commonly used, I don't always feel good
about digital either.
What I do not like is the only copy of a document sitting unindexed
in some museum's collection, accessible to nobody!
Tim.