If scanning involves destroying or harming the books, which it does, and future technologies can scan the pages without actually opening the books, then it's clear which solution I would choose. In many cases we have extra books though.
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 3:48 PM, David Goodman dgoodmanny@gmail.com wrote:
That is like saying, . Why should i backup my computer now, when there will be high capacity media in a few years, or when the next version of the OS will do it automatically.
or, more closely, why should a books scanning project even be bothered with now. In future generation we might well have scanners that will do it much more efficiently without opening the books.
David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Brian Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu wrote:
My technology/power of community inspired opinion is that we don't need
to
worry about that problem right now. We could recreate all the content in short order were all the datacenters simultaneously struck by asteroids,
and
more feasible long-term storage solutions will present themselves in the next few decades. Anything we do right now is just going to get replaced.
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