[OM] Re: Archival media - was: Re: Mamiya

[Donald]

Chuck Norcutt wrote:

> 
> The products (CD & DVD) he refers to don't actually exist yet. 
> Amazingly, he makes it clear that the only real market they've 
> identified for archival media is government.  I'm startled that 
> universities and other large organizations are not identified as part of 
> the market.  Maybe your sister should contact him and ask why.  Contact 
> info is in the paper.
> 
> Chuck Norcutt
> 


Being a librarian by training, I read somewhere in the last couple of years 
that 
the Swiss were returning to archiving vital documents / files / images on film, 
due to the unpredictability of failure and monitoring difficulties associated 
with modern digital media.

UK librarianship suffers from exactly the "bleeding-edge" syndrome described. I 
used to resist the tendency to scrap everything once digitised, but then got 
out 
entirely and ceased to worry about it. Except in nightmares. I'm a worrier by 
nature...

D.



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