Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Mar 18, 2010, at 10:49, nicolas vigier wrote: > I think in the futur, people will store they data online on the > internet (or what some people call "in the cloud") with online backup > providers. So you don't need to bother about unreadable medias or things > like that, you put the data on their systems, and they replicate it on > several medias to avoid hardware failures. You are assuming that a) the company that runs the 'cloud' is still around in 10-N years and b) you still have S/W that can interpret all that (non-textual) data. Keeping the data accessible is only 1/2 of the battle. This is a very hard problem which has no good solution so far. Constant transcription is one way but then many of the syntactic and some of the semantic elements will be lost over time due to transcription errors. My understanding is that archivists really worry about this little bit. Regards, Spencer