[Klug-general] Any help....

[David Halliday]

This article sums up where we are with digital medium long term storage:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/long-term-personal-data-storage/376

<http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/long-term-personal-data-storage/376>There
was an article talking about a research project (If only I could remember
who) that worked with producing a plastic (which isn't biodegradable,
resists heat etc...). The article on the methodology, which was (as usual in
the news) not described in any detail. The news seemed more interested in
reporting peoples reactions to the new technology than the new technology
itself. But my interpretation is:
That has the binary data printed on plastic like a brail book (much smaller
scale) which doesn't break down and can be easily stored in an archive
environment.

Part of the issue with storage mediums is that with digital storage it is
comparatively easy to copy digital files than it is/was to copy say VHS
data.

On 27 August 2010 11:29, Karl Buckland <buckland.karl at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 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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