zip (was: Re: Disk archival techniques)

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On Wed, 18 May 2005, Jim Leonard wrote:

> Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
> >  It seems that may of you are missing the point. The archives
> > are intended to be useable in say 500 years ( moved to
> > future media ). Any proprietary application like WinRAR
> > is useless for this purpose.
>
> I think that *you* are missing the point that *no* archive can last that long
> except maybe paper.  (I say this because the media reader for paper is... all

You're interpretting what Dwight is saying within your own context.
Dwight is referring to the content itself, not the media on which the
content (The Archive) is stored.

> humans. 100 years from now I wouldn't expect to be able to read a
> DVD-ROM, for comparison.) Most digital archivsts agree that the goal is
> not 100 years, but 10-20 so that it can be transferred to the new
> generation of media every so often.

This is now a given to anyone that's given it a couple moment's thought.

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