Re: durable digital in current technology-->stewardship

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Stewart Brand
Mon, 20 Apr 1998 09:25:03 -0700


At 10:52 AM -0400 4/20/98, Ken Thibodeau wrote:
>Your comment sums up very succinctly the core of the rebuttal of this
>proposal: preservation of authentic records is at the heart of the mission
>of an archives.

It's interesting that to the descriptor "authentic" must increasingly be
added "readable" (or "runnable"), thanks to digitalization...