22 Mar
2013
22 Mar
'13
8:14 a.m.
On Mar 22, 2013, at 10:49 AM, Mouse <mouse at rodents-montreal.org> wrote:
Because sometimes they are prohibited from doing otherwise by
their employers (governments are especially guilty of this,
since their staffs are often either incompetent or consultants
who have a financial interest in prolonging the agony).
Often enough, especially with governments, the person put in
charge of data preservation is not someone who has the foggiest
idea of how to actually go about it. They then have to rely on
other people to do it, which is great if you know the right
people and disastrous if you only THINK you know the right
people.
I assumed the question to specifically mean early DVD-Rs, but
that could be errant.
- Dave
(d) Survival
of programs which can read the data structure of the file
However, (d) seems even more of a problems as
programs such as
editors abandon old formats without even retaining read only
capability within newer versions of the program.
Why on earth would anyone who cares about data preservation use a
closed data format?! I do agree
that current DVD players are still able to read the data
from any original DVD media burned when they first became available.
Were the first DVDs burned? I've always assumed they were pressed,
more or less like CDs. Am I wrong?