Re: Golden Canon
[ Home ][ Thread ][ Subject ][ Author ][ Date ]Stewart Brand
Tue, 24 Feb 1998 10:10:51 -0800
At 8:05 AM -0500 2/24/98, Scott Roley wrote:
>NARA's preservation program for the tapes calls for their recopying at
>least every 10 years (and presumably their migration to a new medium if
>a solid standard has developed in the interim). NARA will accept
>transfers from agencies on CD-ROM now (providing the ASCII/EBCDIC
>and other requirements are met), but they are copied back to tape for
>storage and preservation....the CD-ROM is retained too, but the tape is
>the primary preservation copy.
Good lore, Scott. Do you know how they manage such oceanically massive
copying?