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Over at Independendant Arts Media Preservation<\/a> I can read:<\/p>\n


\nThe complexity of digital media preservation is fourfold. First, data resides on a physical support\u00e2\u20ac\u201ca floppy disk, CD-ROM, or hard-drive, for example\u00e2\u20ac\u201cand this physical container or support naturally deteriorates. Second, the data itself may decay. Third, most software is proprietary and has no long-term technical support. Finally, hardware obsolescence makes a great deal of digital media inaccessible.
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I would merge point 3 and 4 into one. 3 being able to be overcome by open source. Point #1 is also called Entropie, and it’s a real bitch. If you escape all illnesses and accidents it is will get you in the end. But the “data itself may decay” ??? Huh? How so? If bit’s are not what they used to be, than it’s the first point. Data is pure.<\/p>\n

It is kind of scary that the people that tasked themselves with the preservation of stuff have such a bent understanding of the thing they like to protect. Somebody probably started his\/her computing experience on a bug ridden system like Windows 95. I wonder what their plan against ‘self inflicted data decay’ may be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over at Independendant Arts Media Preservation I can read: The complexity of digital media preservation is fourfold. First, data resides on a physical support\u00e2\u20ac\u201ca floppy disk, CD-ROM, or hard-drive, for example\u00e2\u20ac\u201cand this physical container or support naturally deteriorates. Second, the data itself may decay. Third, most software is proprietary and has no long-term technical support. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,14,19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nDigital Preservation Panic: When Experts Misunderstood Data<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"2007: Fears of 'data decay' surface. Reality check: Data doesn't decay, but our ability to read it might. 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