Re: Impact of digital photography craze on culture not yet known, one expert thinks it could mean 'dark age'
- From: Hal Lowe <hallowe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 01:19:06 GMT
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 18:54:12 -0600, "Roger N. Clark (change username
to rnclark)" <username@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Zed Pobre wrote:
>> Bret Ludwig <bretldwig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Which digital media that has the _proven archivality_ of properly
>>>processed black and white films and archival prints, Kodachrome
>>>transparencies, or Cibachrome prints, do you recommend?
>>
>>
>> Any widely mirrored, frequently re-replicated network storage system
>> with a parity system to check for and correct data corruption will
>> literally retain perfect copies for as long as there is anything alive
>> that cares enough to keep the system running, and such a system could
>> survive 99% of the storage sites being bombed back into the stone age,
>> as long as the last site stayed undamaged long enough for the material
>> to be safely mirrored away again.
>>
>> What film media archival system will provably survive being burned to
>> ash? You could drop a nuclear bomb on Santa Clara, California, and
>> kernel.org wouldn't even drop offline. North Korea could turn all of
>> California into a maze of glass craters, destroying all of the servers
>> associated with kernel.org, and I'd still have no problem getting a
>> copy of the latest Linux kernel. (It's probably the last thing I'd be
>> even thinking about in the case of nuclear war, but that's not really
>> the point.)
>>
>> Film or microfiche only lasts longer when nobody cares about it over a
>> long period of time. There are situations where that's valuable, too,
>> but there aren't very many.
>>
>> If you want your data to live forever, pay a dozen people in different
>> countries to host the data. Set up a trust to keep replicating to a
>> new host any time any one of those drops out of contact. As long as
>> nothing kills all twelve of them before new hosts can be found to
>> mirror, your data will last until your money runs out. You could
>> probably do this on three sites at least for US$20/month for a
>> sizeable collection of photographs, which is not outrageously
>> expensive, and I'd be quite astonished if the entire collection wasn't
>> in perfect condition a hundred years from now as long as the bills got
>> paid and civilization still exists.
>>
>> People that focus on physical media rather than replication
>> misunderstand the strength of digital storage. Data archival is a
>> *solved problem*. The only thing to argue about is how much money is
>> justifiable to spend on a given level of safety.
>>
>Well said. I agree.
>Roger
Ditto!
Hal Lowe
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