Category Archive
The following is a list of all entries from the Methods category.
Researchers create nanotube memory that can store data for a billion years
This is some of the best news I’ve had all day.
See brief article at engadget.
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Video Paradiso: how an Italian town rescued a priceless film collection
This is just a neat story that shows how what a community cares about can affect the longevity of an archive.
David Rosenthal on format specifications
Good stuff that I need to read again.
Discussion summary on format specifications
from Chris Rusbridge’s digital curation blog
Image Fortress Launches Online Archive of World’s Space Exploration Imagery
Neat. They claim to provide organizations with a “fully automated, online digital archiving services that ensure the secure, long-term preservation and integrity of electronic documents and still and video imagery.” I am deeply curious to know how they accomplish this.
German lovers – aged six and five – try to elope to Africa
This snuck into my delicious archives. Adorable.
Communication Measures to Bridge 10 Millennia
Alexander Rose of the Long Now Foundation posted an interesting piece about measures to communicate the whereabouts of nuclear waste, as proposed by Thomas Sebeok for the US Office of Nuclear Waste Management in 1981. In it he proposes that we create verbal and pictorial messages not only warning of the location of the hazardous material, but also asking that the message be revisited and rebroadcast in the best means possible of the current age. He proposes that we only shoot for making the message last through three generations, or about 250 years. This is definitely one of the many methods I think we should employ when seeking to preserve all aspects of our cultural heritage for the long term.
