Let's develop an open-source media archive standard

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "Vintage" == Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com> writes:

 Vintage> Ok, instead of all the unproductive bickering over semantics
 Vintage> (most of which is illogical...come on, admit it) I'd rather
 Vintage> we actually discuss developing further an open-source,
 Vintage> public domain, free (in every sense of the word) standard
 Vintage> for archiving data media of all types (magentic, paper, or
 Vintage> otherwise).

 Vintage> This is basically going to be a continuation of what we've
 Vintage> already discussed on the list, and what Hans and I have
 Vintage> discussed in private.

 Vintage> First, let's start with the goals.

When you say "archiving" what span of time do you mean?  A year?  A
decade?  A century?  Longer?

You will get completely different answers depending on how you answer
that question.

(See also www.longnow.org)

     paul