Topic ID #7984 - posted 6/29/2010 6:44 AM
Jennifer Palmer
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Digital genome goes underground
Jennifer Palmer
Webmaster
One can only wonder how projects like this may affect archaeologists and historians of the future...
Tech Podcast: Digital genome goes underground
By Clark Boyd ⋅ May 25, 2010
Question: Fifty or one hundred years from now, how are you going to access and look at all those poorly focused, badly composed digital pictures of your friends and loved ones? Will the JPEG format even still exist? Archivists and technologists alike are already thinking about the issue of digital preservation, increasingly important as more and more of our daily lives are stored in digital form. The EU-funded Planets Project has a unique solution. They’ve created a time capsule with a snapshot of our current “digital genome.” Inside are five digital objects common today (JPEG, QuickTime Movie, PDF, HTML website, and a Java program), and the instructions on how to, if necessary, recreate the hardware and software necessary to access and understand these files. To show the world they’re serious about saving our bits and getting a handle on their preservation, the Planets team locked the time capsule away in the Swiss Fort Knox. “It’s like in a James Bond film,” says team leader Adam Farquhar.
Read the rest of the writeup and obtain the podcast here.
More info on the Planets Digital Genome TimeCapsule here.
Tech Podcast: Digital genome goes underground
By Clark Boyd ⋅ May 25, 2010
Question: Fifty or one hundred years from now, how are you going to access and look at all those poorly focused, badly composed digital pictures of your friends and loved ones? Will the JPEG format even still exist? Archivists and technologists alike are already thinking about the issue of digital preservation, increasingly important as more and more of our daily lives are stored in digital form. The EU-funded Planets Project has a unique solution. They’ve created a time capsule with a snapshot of our current “digital genome.” Inside are five digital objects common today (JPEG, QuickTime Movie, PDF, HTML website, and a Java program), and the instructions on how to, if necessary, recreate the hardware and software necessary to access and understand these files. To show the world they’re serious about saving our bits and getting a handle on their preservation, the Planets team locked the time capsule away in the Swiss Fort Knox. “It’s like in a James Bond film,” says team leader Adam Farquhar.
Read the rest of the writeup and obtain the podcast here.
More info on the Planets Digital Genome TimeCapsule here.
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