Check out artical on Data Format Storage

[Tim Shoppa]

RD Keys wrote:
> In the July 2005 issue of Technology Review there's an article about the
> over 16,000 formats of data that the NARA has to store and make available
> forever.  They have two companies working on a way to store all this data
> in their correct data format but be able to review it at anytime in the
> future.

What you fail to mention is the magnitude of the effort: $136,000,000
is the budget Bush wants for this.

My efforts to steer the efforts towards sanity were completely ignored.
If you aren't a defense contractor with a marketing budget to woo
politicians, you have no say in how this goes.

I want to be optimistic about the process and results but I wasted
too many years trying to make it work.

Tim. (not in a good mood...)