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Digital preservation article
In today's (November 10) NYTimes on the web, on the front page, there is
an article about the problems of digital preservation and retrieval. Nothing new for those of us who have been worried about this all along, but for those who are really into digital photography and haven't thought about this aspect, it's worth reading. |
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Silver rears its ugly head.
"LR Kalajainen" wrote in message ... In today's (November 10) NYTimes on the web, on the front page, there is an article about the problems of digital preservation and retrieval. Nothing new for those of us who have been worried about this all along, but for those who are really into digital photography and haven't thought about this aspect, it's worth reading. |
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John Walton wrote: Silver rears its ugly head. "LR Kalajainen" wrote in message ... In today's (November 10) NYTimes on the web, on the front page, there is an article about the problems of digital preservation and retrieval. Nothing new for those of us who have been worried about this all along, but for those who are really into digital photography and haven't thought about this aspect, it's worth reading. Everyone should read this. You have to register on the NYT web site (free and silly but worth it.) Even Digital Memories Can Fade KATIE HAFNER The nation's 115 million home computers are brimming over with personal treasures - millions of photographs...Yet no one has figured out how to preserve these electronic materials for the next decade, much less for the ages...the problem of digital archiving....confounds even the experts. "To save a digital file for, let's say, a hundred years is going to take a lot of work," said Peter Hite, president of Media Management Services, a consulting firm in Houston. "Whereas to take a traditional photograph and just put it in a shoe box doesn't take any work...." http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/10/te...10archive.html Copyright 2004*The New York Times Company |
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