Let's develop an open-source media archive standard

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On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Teo Zenios wrote:

> 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.

That's a very cool project.  The archives they are making could be
converted into the specification I'm talking about by writing a
translation program to take the raw bit images they are producing and
convert it into the specification markup language.  Quite easily.


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