[Chapter-delegates] Vint Cerf - Digital Vellum

[Carlos A. Afonso]

DNA-based storage as the solution for really permanent storage?

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Information/News/press-releases/press-release-01232013-DNA_storage.html

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On 01/24/2013 07:41 AM, Sivasubramanian M wrote:
> Dear Joly,
>
> Yes, it would be a good initiative. We could form a group.
>
> Sivasubramanian M
> On Jan 23, 2013 2:10 PM, "Joly MacFie" <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I am noticing today<http://guevents.georgetown.edu/event/vint_cerf_internet_in_the_21st_century>that Vint appears to have a new post-WCIT hobby horse - solving the problem
>> of "bit rot". Bit rot is the loss over time of the ability to properly
>> interpret digital information, and also the degradation of the media that
>> carries it.. Vint's notion is "Digital Vellum", in his words "creating an
>> ecosystem for preserving the meaning of digital information over long
>> periods of time."
>>
>> I think digital preservation particularly of online media, and the
>> development of open standards for the same, is a suitable topic for ISOC to
>> pay attention to. I know the W3C is interested, too.
>>
>> There are already plenty of initiatives within the library and museum
>> communities.
>>
>> If enough people are interested perhaps we could form a group.
>>
>> j
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