[Foundation-l] Long-term archiving of Wikimedia content

[Brian]

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 at 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 at 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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