22 Mar
2013
22 Mar
'13
9:31 a.m.
On Mar 22, 2013, at 12:25 PM, Mouse <mouse at rodents-montreal.org> wrote:
Well, true. Anything can be done badly. But coming up with advice for
long-term data preservation for someone under the imposed constraint of
a closed data format is a bit like coming up with advice for someone
who wants to build a high-performance car under the imposed constraint
that the wheels be square: the constraint breaks the goal so
fundamentally that there's not much point in even trying.
I think we're on the same page here. I suppose it would be fair to
say that the folks who would use closed data formats to preserve
data do not actually care about data preservation, so I didn't quite
answer the question you asked. :-)
- Dave
Why on earth would anyone who cares about data
preservation use a
closed data format?!
Because sometimes they are prohibited from doing otherwise
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