On 10/15/06, GerardM gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
What needs doing:
- Much information needs to be preserved. Much data that is really
precious needs digitizing. So that we will nor suffer another disaster like the burning of the library of Alexandria.
This may not be terribly important for the particular donor, however...
The long-term preservation of knowledge in sites like Wikipedia and the Internet Archive is currently exceptionally tactical.
Within the WP context, perhaps in consort with IA, it would be a really good idea to look to short-term data backup redundancy through very long term archive issues.
A lot of modern data is not completely, but functionally, lost. Avoiding that happening here would be good...