[ih] Museum-quality archive for this list?

[Jorge Amodio]

Preserving paper for 500+ years will require an environmentally controlled
room, and for the amount of documents associated, a very large room !

-J

On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 10:19 AM wfms--- via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

>
> I had quite an interesting discussion while sorting through some materials
> (mostly digital) with a profesional (non-techie) archivist.
>
> After quite discussion over what MTBF, digital storage methods,
> longevities of various media, etc. it got to the point where we both
> looked around...lots of boxes full of pulp - some of it going back 2-3
> centuries, still accessible.
>
> We found a printer.
>
> To get fancier, could have made a preservation copy as well as a
> consultation copy.  Even fancier, sent the 8.5" x 14" off for binding.
>
> That's not to say paper-bound i or isn't a step backwards, and nothing
> beats feeding digital data into a search engine indexer - but at least
> some semblance of indexing into the various volumes also not paper-bound
> may help.  It all depends.
>
> On Tue, 16 Nov 2021, vinton cerf via Internet-history wrote:
>
> > You are singing my song
> > V
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 08:03 John Day via Internet-history <
> > internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> >
> >> We have no means of archival store for digital material. Archival has to
> >> last 500 years or more. (I am often using materials that old.) Not only
> are
> >> we not sure the storage media last that long, but having something that
> >> reads it is the real problem.)
> >>
> >>> On Nov 15, 2021, at 21:53, Bill Woodcock via Internet-history <
> >> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>> On Nov 15, 2021, at 20:37, Dave Crocker via Internet-history <
> >> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> >>>>> I got a private note asking about a paid archive at archive.org.  I
> >> think that a reasonable question and possibly worth doing on it own.
> >> Whether that qualifies as 'museum quality' isn't something I can assess.
> >>>
> >>> Well, it’s what we’ve got for “archival quality” on the Internet right
> >> now, and if it’s not good enough, that means Brewster needs more
> support.
> >>>
> >>>                                -Bill
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