Re: [ARSCLIST] Hard disk drives and DAT

[John Ross <johnross@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is not a problem that is unique to those of us concerned with 
preserving audio. Our colleagues who are producing digital archives 
of documents and other artifacts are dealing with exactly the same 
set of long-term storage problems, including the issues related to 
digital originals.

Therefore, it seems to me that it's essential that those of us in the 
audio preservation and archiving community should not try to 
independently invent our own methods. In terms of archival storage 
and access, it makes no difference if the bits represent sounds or if 
they're words and images.

It's not clear to me that the words and pictures folks are any 
further along the path toward a solution, but they're out there, and 
we should work with them to assure that the IT "experts" don't 
control the process without participation from the content specialists.

John Ross