[SIGCIS-Members] Google boss warns of 'forgotten century' with email and photos at risk

[adam spring]

Very good point. There was a good write up in the Guardian from 2002 about
trying to recover data from Doomsday:

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/mar/03/research.elearning

http://cool.conservation-us.org/coolaic/sg/emg/library/pdf/wheatley/Wheatley-EMG2004.pdf

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 6:17 PM, Brian Randell <
brian.randell at newcastle.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi:
>
> The most challenging digital preservation project I personally know of
> (though doubtless there are many more) was the project to rescue the BBC
> Domesday Book Videodisks- see
>
>   http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue36/tna
>
> A cautionary remark from the concluding section of this account of the
> project is: "The lesson of this digital preservation project is that if you
> have enough time, individual skill, dedication and imagination then almost
> anything is possible, provided that you don't leave it too late.”
>
> Cheers
>
> Brian
>
>
> On 13 Feb 2015, at 17:49, Ian S. King <isking at uw.edu> wrote:
>
> > And at the University of Washington, I've worked on a Multi-Lifespan
> Information Systems project, the Voices from the Rwanda Tribunal.  This is
> a real-world application of design principles to support both the
> bit-integrity and authenticity of digital documents, in this case the
> audiovisual record of interviews with members of the International Criminal
> Tribunal - Rwanda formed in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
> Last year, I conducted maintenance on the archive and we learned a great
> deal about the challenges involved - publication pending.  :-)
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 8:50 AM, Len Shustek <len at shustek.com> wrote:
> > At 03:07 AM 2/13/2015, Brian Randell wrote:
> > > Digital material including key historical documents could be lost
> forever because programs to view them will become defunct, says Vint Cerf
> >
> > We've been beating that drum for a while at the Computer History Museum,
> starting with a short film for the general public called "Digital Dark Age"
> that we did in 2011 for our permanent "Revolution" exhibition.
> > http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/memory-storage/8/325/2208
> >
> > The inspiration for that film was my discovery that modern versions of
> Powerpoint won't open presentations created by Powerpoint 1.0, which was
> released in 1990. In only twenty years, perfectly preserved bits were
> rendered useless.
> >
> > -- Len
> >
> >
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> > Ph.D. Candidate
> > The Information School
> > University of Washington
> >
> > An optimist sees a glass half full. A pessimist sees it half empty. An
> engineer sees it twice as large as it needs to be.
>
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