Re: [ARSCLIST] Library of Congress/NAVCC digital preservation infrastructure

[Rod Stephens <savecal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As with audio, to constantly migrate to biggest, latest, and best is 
going to be the only solution for long-term preservation.  I've already 
started to digitize from VHS, S-VHS, Hi8, Digital8, Digibeta to DVD and 
ONWARD!!!

Rod Stephens
Family Theater Productions

steven c wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gregory Lukow" <gluk@xxxxxxx>
> To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 4:18 PM
> Subject: [ARSCLIST] Library of Congress/NAVCC digital preservation
> infrastructure
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> > A program to digitally preserve selected film collections (primarily 16mm
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> B&W material, kinescopes, etc.) will follow within a few years.
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> The inherent problem with computerizing stuff on this sort of
> a long-term schedule is that by the time the digitization is
> completed, it is possible that the format will be so obsolete
> as to make it essentially inaccessible!
>
> I have megabytes of dBASE files (which are at least importable
> into most database applications)...as well as the original files
> I created for my Dating Guide...on 5.25" floppies in a format so
> obsolete no 21st century program can comprehend them!
>
> Steven C. Barr
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