Preservation of correspondence

I sent a longer email to Al off-list, but I wanted to let the rest of you know about something the company I work for (Kristine Fallon Associates) is doing. We did a study for the Art Institute of Chicago about how their Department of Architecture and Design could collect and preserve the "digital design data" (CAD files, images, Poiwerpoints, etc.) that architects are using more and more. Our report is online at http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/dept_architecture/ddd.html. We are now just about finished creating a working prototype archival system. I'm programming a Web client for entering the metadata and a programmer for the AIC is doing the back end. We are using the DSpace archive software (developed by MIT and HP) as the storage mechanism. Our approach is certainly not directly applicable to preserving software -- we suggest using PDF's as wrappers for a lot of data -- but I think the report addresses a number of important, and common, issues. Bob +++++++++++++++++ Message: 18 Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 15:54:47 -0500 From: "William Donzelli" <wdonzelli at gmail.com> Subject: Re: Preservation of correspondence To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Message-ID: <e1d20d630702051254l6a6d3c01qdae2375b462c7c64 at mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed CHM is a fairly unique institution, that is why. There are only a handful of computer museums that are run like museums. Many "computer museums" are just glorified users groups, informal circles of friends, or just guys that like hoarding machines and docs. -- Will _________________________________________________________________ FREE online classifieds from Windows Live Expo ? buy and sell with people you know http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwex0010000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://ex…