On 6-Oct-2006, at 14:26, Gray, Eric wrote:
It makes sense now, but will it make sense in 10 years?
If there is concern about a permanent archive, then surely this is
entirely orthogonal to the question of whether to burn things to
scratch-prone, flimsy plastic discs.
To give information a good shot at being available for a long time,
make sure it's widely distributed. If there was a straightforward way
for entities such as universities, libraries, and dedicated archival
and data indexing companies, ISPs and interested individuals to
mirror the proceedings in an automated and robust fashion, I'm sure
it would happen on a grand scale.
This kind of distribution, coupled with document formats which are as
open and plain as possible (ASCII!), seems like the best way to
ensure that the material is preserved on as many different types of
media and filesystem as possible.
Joe
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