Friday, December 15, 2006
The digital black hole
Cue Gustav Holst's music -- specifically, "Saturn, the bringer of obsolescence."
CNET has an article on the Planets Consortium, dedicated to preserving data and avoiding its loss due to format obsolescence. The Planets Project website has entries dating back to June, but this is the first I've heard of it. Participants include a number of prominent European archives and libraries.
The site mentions a recent workshop on preservation of digital photographs (page in Danish).
"Planets" is, with the aid of a Moebius shoehorn, an acronym for "preservation and long-term access project through networked services."
# posted by Gary McGath @ 11:57 AM 
