State wrestles with saving electronic records
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| "History is being made now," she said. "There's a great deal lost with the
| changes in technology. I am concerned about the loss of permanent records
| that's happening every day."
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http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=126896&ac=PHnws
Consider Outlook's proprietary format, which is not backward compatible.
Related:
Little progress in states' ODF considerations
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| In extrapolating the dangers posed by the continued use of Microsoft's
| formats the expert cited issues that rescue workers faced in accessing
| records maintained by local government entities when aiding in the relief of
| victims of the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean, in which an estimated
| 300,000 people were killed,.
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http://www.infoworld.nl/idgns/bericht.phtml?id=002570DE00740E18002573300079DCFE
Publish And Perish
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| Alexander Rose, the executive director of the futurist Long Now
| Foundation, worries about the impermanence of digital information.
| "If you save that computer for 100 years, will the electrical plugs
| look the same?" he asks. "The Mac or the PC--will they be around?
| If they are, what about the software? " So far there's no business
| case for digital preservation--in fact, for software makers like
| Microsoft, planned obsolescence is the plan.
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| "The reality is that it's in companies' interest that software should
| become obsolete and that you should have to buy every upgrade,"
| Rose says. We could be on the cusp of a turning point, though, in the
| way businesses and their customers think about digital preservation.
| "Things will start to change when people start losing all of their personal
| photos," Rose said.
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http://www.forbes.com/2006/11/30/books-information-preservation-tech-media_cx_ee_books06_1201acid.html?partner=yahootix
http://tinyurl.com/yyjqoh
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