20 Nov
2021
20 Nov
'21
12:23 p.m.
On Fri, Nov 19, 2021, at 6:21 PM, Michael Kerpan via cctalk wrote:
What are we, as a community, to do to fix this and make sure that our
history stays peserved and isn't one bad day away from vanishing.
Mike
Unfortunately, we're just not doing enough. I don't have an answer, but for
several years I worked for the LOCKSS project at Stanford University. Their software is
open source, and is used to archive online academic journals in a distributed,
fault-tolerant peer to peer network (their primary research was on how to prevent bitrot
and enable automatic format migration, for example). With some effort, it could be
retooled into a general-purpose software archive, but I don't think anybody has ever
seriously proposed doing that. I only point it out as inspiration for one possible way to
do things.
Until we have a better answer, we're just at the mercy of bitrot, and we have to
accept that.
-Seth
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Seth Morabito
Poulsbo, WA
web at loomcom.com