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Well I can read Domesday in the original and the facsimilies are now
great due to a market for the product. However, the biggest problem over
storage is can we guarantee continued funding for archives which hardly
anyone ever consults. I do a lot of work in Wales where the small
museums are now more or less full and expansion of storage not high on
the agenda. Burial of finds is being planned.
Best thing to happen in UK is the York-based archaeological data service
- just hope the funding keeps coming through the next recession.
paul.
Timothy Scarlett wrote:
> i'm sure we'll be able to read it all or recover it from crashes with
> mirrored back ups. Just ask the White House about emails.
> Tim
>
> On Nov 13, 2007, at 8:51 PM, Bob Skiles wrote:
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>>>
>>> But 15 years later, British officials found the information on the
>>> discs was practically inaccessible - not because the discs were
>>> corrupted, but because they were no longer compatible with modern
>>> computer systems. By contrast, the original Domesday Book, written
>>> on parchment in 1086, is still in readable condition in England's
>>> National Archives in Kew. (The multimedia version was ultimately
>>> salvaged.) "
>>>
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>> http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4201645.html
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>> The author apparently confuses the difference between legible and
>> readable. Even though the origininal Domesday Book is very well
>> preserved and perfectly "legible" he fails to mention that, it too,
>> is "practically inaccessible" ... as it is written in Latin and in an
>> ofttimes confusing format, and for all practical purposes of the
>> average person "reading" or accessing the data, it's just as
>> inaccessible as the obsolete laser discs became.
>> "Although unique in character and invaluable to the student, scholars
>> are unable to explain portions of its language and of its system.
>> This is partly due to its very early date, which has placed a gulf
>> between Domesday Book and later records which is difficult to
>> bridge." - from wikipedia entry
>
> Timothy Scarlett
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> Department of Social Sciences/AOB 209
> Michigan Technological University
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