Re: arsclist Digital knowledge preservation

[Dave Bradley <db65@xxxxxxx>]

HI,

Just to add my two cents on this topic, the original message said:

>> I limit my own attempts at preservation to self-contained
>> CD-ROMs in strict ISO 9660 format and include Windows
>> retrieval capability.

Since the term "limit" is used here, it sounds as though you are explicitly 
saying you do NOT keep the source of the file and only keep the compressed 
version you're putting on that CD-ROM.  But then you say:

> Don-Just because you make an mp3 file of a recording doesn't mean
> you have to throw the source of the file out.

If you don't throw that source out, then you aren't limiting your attempts 
at preservation to CD-ROMs full of MP3s, which directly contradicts what 
I'm reading in the original message.

Either you're limiting your preservation to the CD-ROMs of MP3s or you're 
keeping the original source as well. You can't do both limit and keep at 
the same time.  This may well be the source of a lot of the confusion.

And while I also agree that MP3s may make the recordings more easily 
accessible, to suggest that the archives be stored ONLY in that format 
would be foolish.


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