Comments on: Preserving (the memory of) documents

By: John

John — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:20:09 +0000

I suppose the Rosetta disk is optimized for a different kind of search. They want to maximize the chances of someone being able to understand the purpose of the disk, not the maximize the speed at which someone in our time can find things. Finding this disk in the future might be something like discovering the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947, a discovery that took decades to process.

By: MFH

MFH — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:03:38 +0000

Trying to browse the Rosetta disc on-line made me aware that the problem (at least in out short-term version) is not that much to simply /preserve/ data, but also to /find/ what you are looking for in your archive. While I don’t /loose/ my documents, I’m unable to /find/ a given one – unless it’s in a more or less well structured archive which is “universally” accessible (from home, office, and on travel…) and can contain “everything”.
Back to the Rosetta disc, I was even unable to find a text in a given language (say, German). Actually, I even did not succeed in location the sector “Europe”. (Hoping for alphabetical order, after “Africa” and “Asia” I ran into “Oceania”… ?)

By: MFH

MFH — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:11:52 +0000

I like that idea… for now, the best I found is to keep /all/ in /one/ place: google docs… hoping that this service stays alive for some time… and thinking about how to make backups in an efficient way…

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How to preserve documents — The Endeavour — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:29:00 +0000

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