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From: eugene@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
Subject: Keeping lots of data was: Publishing Scholarly Work on the Web -- opinions?
Organization: NASA Ames Res. Ctr. Mtn Vw CA 94035
Date: 25 Sep 1996 17:43:52 GMT
Message-ID: <52br0o$5h3@onramp.arc.nasa.gov>

In article <1996Sep2418.45.03.25687@koobera.math.uic.edu>
djb@koobera.math.uic.edu (D. J. Bernstein) writes:
:In article <5295oe$qj2@walter.cray.com>, David Ecale <ecale@cray.com> wrote:
:> 1) The change in technology is such that data stored on media only 10 years
:> ago is completely unreadable, well almost!
:
>Who cares? Keep data online, all the time. Replicate data from older
>media to newer media. What we want to keep are the bits, not the disks.

You must have small data sets.  And lots of money.


Talking to a big publisher in NYC, they don't want to be responsible for
the job of being a librarian.





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