[Klug-general] Any help....

Karl Buckland buckland.karl at googlemail.com
Fri Aug 27 10:29:50 UTC 2010


On 27 August 2010 11:26, Mike Evans <mike at tandem.f9.co.uk> wrote:
>
> The British Library currently has on display works in early English
> published about 600 years ago.  The medium was paper and a coloured deposit
> generally based on carbon (lamp-black) or ground minerals.  They last very
> well provided light is limited - which is the norm in closed books.  They
> tried transferring it to microfilm starting in 1938 - but have found that
> medium somewhat less reliable than the original.  Some lessons of history,
> it would seem, have yet to be learned.
>

Maybe the lesson is just 'Keep things as simple as possible'.
Techically storing things digitally should help, but of course you
need to always keep the storage medium up to date!

Karl



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