Let's develop an open-source media archive standard

[Teo Zenios]

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> On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Paul Koning wrote:
>
> > When you say "archiving" what span of time do you mean?  A year?  A
> > decade?  A century?  Longer?
>
> Is forever too ambitious? :)
>
> The idea is to create a standard for representing the data, not a medium.
> Media with near-infinite longevity will be the next undertaking :)
>
> > (See also www.longnow.org)
>
> Is there a specific section you want to refer me to?
>
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Here is an example of a society that preserves media on the Amiga platform
(complete images including the copy protection as used by the developer).

http://www.caps-project.org/

They have spent allot of time deciphering custom disk formats and saving all
of the information digitally so it can be reproduced exactly at a later
date.

TZ