Remind me of the NASA tapes that included the original moon walk. The tapes were in an obsolete digital recording of telemetry. NASA had to locate a recorder in Australia to refurbish to process the original data. And they suffered huge data losses when due to budget issues, re-used old tapes instead of archiving them.
Printed books on paper might be the only thing that lasts for a very long time.
Interesting article. Jason has taken on a huge job. As a former national library director responsible inter alia for the legal deposit of South Africa's published documentary heritage, I'm only too aware of the challenge. About two decades ago we were planning a new headquarters building and briefing IT experts and others about our long-term preservation needs. Our national library holds materials going back at least ten centuries, so I told these experts that our preservation horizon should be ten centuries too. They just rolled their eyes. Turned out their notion of long-term preservation was around three to ten years.
When I left one position for the other I sent the archives of a project to the ALA archives on floppy disks. They likely are just trash now. At least you gave them something to think about.
I didn't know that. I know GG has been offline more and that David has been ill since summer but did not know this had gotten worse. That family is so good.
Remind me of the NASA tapes that included the original moon walk. The tapes were in an obsolete digital recording of telemetry. NASA had to locate a recorder in Australia to refurbish to process the original data. And they suffered huge data losses when due to budget issues, re-used old tapes instead of archiving them.
Printed books on paper might be the only thing that lasts for a very long time.
Clay tablets!
Only where is stays dry. But I suppose paper has a similar issue. Stone carvings?
All this stuff stuff exists forever on the space-time continuum. Accessing it is the problem.
Maybe help here:
Audio-Visual Conservation at the Library of Congress Packard Campus.
https://www.loc.gov/programs/audio-visual-conservation/about-this-program/
This is so beautifully poignant.
Interesting article. Jason has taken on a huge job. As a former national library director responsible inter alia for the legal deposit of South Africa's published documentary heritage, I'm only too aware of the challenge. About two decades ago we were planning a new headquarters building and briefing IT experts and others about our long-term preservation needs. Our national library holds materials going back at least ten centuries, so I told these experts that our preservation horizon should be ten centuries too. They just rolled their eyes. Turned out their notion of long-term preservation was around three to ten years.
When I left one position for the other I sent the archives of a project to the ALA archives on floppy disks. They likely are just trash now. At least you gave them something to think about.
When the eight-track came out I assumed audio recording had now reached its zenith.
and you had to install you own device..cars didn't come with them.
GG UPDATE
Jan 13. – Ep. 22 -- EXCLUSIVE: Extreme Escalation of Brazil’s Censorship Regime
https://rumble.com/v25depn-exclusive-extreme-escalation-of-brazils-censorship-regime-system-update-22.html -- Brazil Threatens Twitter, FB, Rumble
Q & A -- https://greenwald.locals.com/upost/3355709/after-show-q-a-january-13-2023
Video X-cript:
Jan. 12 – Ep. 21 -- Biden's Own Classified Docs Scandal & The US Govt's Game-Playing With Secrecy, w/ Aaron Maté -- https://rumble.com/v254swv-bidens-own-classified-docs-scandal-and-the-us-govts-game-playing-with-secre.html -- Karmic Justice: Biden’s Mar-a-Lago
Q & A -- https://greenwald.locals.com/upost/3350308/after-show-q-a-january-12-2023
Video X-cript:
Jan. 11 – Ep. 20 -- Dems Rush to Protect FBI/CIA + Buttigieg’s Latest Airline Fiasco w/ David Sirota -- https://rumble.com/v24xze6-dems-rush-to-protect-fbicia-buttigiegs-latest-airline-fiasco-w-david-sirota.html -- Dems Leap to Shield FBI & CIA
Q & A -- https://greenwald.locals.com/upost/3344788/after-show-q-a-january-11-2023
Thank you for the censorship links.
By Monday next week we might no longer hear from Glenn Greenwald -- while his partner is on the edge of death in ER from (likely) sepsis damages.
I didn't know that. I know GG has been offline more and that David has been ill since summer but did not know this had gotten worse. That family is so good.
GG just revealed secret orders by a top judge to silence critics on social media -- he might be in serious situation
O, where?
In a link that I just sent you of his today’s (Jan. 13) video titled “Extreme Censorship in Brazil”.