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Re: [Digital BW] OT - My chat with an archivist

2007-08-04 by Gregory Stempel

>>>
I have done this for 7 years
now and have never lost a photo.<<<<

Keep in mind, seven years is nothing in archival standards. The Library of
congress started losing data from their CD archives after 15 years. After
extensive research, they turned to gold standard CDs.

Another requirement will be that as technology continues it's profit 
motivated advances our jobs will be to transfer our work as necessary. Buy a 
computer every 2-3 years, move your archives over to the new medium every 
5-7 years.


Take care out there,
Gregory
www.fireframeimaging.com
www.soundexposure.org

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Move to quarantaine

This moves the raw source file on disk only. The archive index is not changed automatically, so you still need to run a manual refresh afterward.