[QuadList] The Race to Save America's Public Media History

[G Schmitz]

On 02/07/2014 07:06 PM, Chuck Reti wrote:
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> First in a series in The Atlantic about the American Archive of Public 
> Broadcasting,
> Anyone on the List involved in this project?
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> http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/02/the-race-to-save-americas-public-media-history/283381/ 
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> Chuck Reti
> Detroit MI
> WV8A

This paragraph caught my attention.  Of course nobody talks much about 
the downside of using digital media any more - it's a given. Perhaps we 
have no choice but I think that in the long haul, unless some new 
technology comes along most of what we are dedicating to digital media 
will be lost. Of course that's just my opinion:
> By digitizing these archives, Cariani hopes to keep them intact and 
> available to students of history for years and years down the road. 
> The digital preservation files the archive creates will be held at the 
> Library of Congress. "They have told us that their mandate is to 
> preserve that material for the life of the republic plus 500 years," 
> Cariani says. "I don't know how they start that clock or how they do 
> that, but that's what they told us and we decided that was long 
> enough." (Of course, digital preservation has its own challenges, but 
> Cariani prefers not to dwell on that: "I start feeling nauseous when I 
> start thinking about how you actually assure digital preservation," 
> she adds.)

Have a nice day!  --greg
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