2 Mar
2012
2 Mar
'12
12:46 p.m.
Hi Jim,
Not relevant to the archival media question. If I
want to go out x # of
years and work with what you are using a comparables, they certainly
stand an excellent chance of being in the state of being useful (jpgs,
pdfs, word files, (sorry word and MS are like cockroaches, they'll
never go away).
This is not about the tools, the formats matter. You need to have well defined formats
that are fully documented and open to make sure you can extract the data in the future. I
don't know if I'll be using Photoshop in a decade, it matters if I can still open
my JPEGs (problematic if you look at the reduction involved) or TIFFs or WAVs or FLACs.
It does not matter if you like MS or don't like them. The word format itself is
documented, so as long as this documentation is preserved, all is fine. That's why the
data we preserve is in containers that have proven to be suitable for over a decade now,
they are documented and / or available with source, so people can see how the encoding
works.
Chris