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Re: arsclist Digital knowledge preservation
On 17-Jun-02, Mike Richter wrote:
> Having suffered the problems of recovering aged data, I recommend that
> ARSC establish a set of digital formats for its records in order to
> minimize the risk of obsolescence. I limit my own attempts at
> preservation to self-contained CD-ROMs in strict ISO 9660 format and
> include Windows retrieval capability. The language is HTML 2. Audio
> files are in MP3, which is not as well-defined as I would prefer.
> Unfortunately, the alternatives (WAV, AIFF) are inefficient in use of
> space and would not serve my purposes as well.
It seems unwise to me to use lossy compression for any form of archival
storage. Once that information is thrown out, you can't get it back.
Regards
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Don Cox
doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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