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Subject: Re: Re: [CEMETERY-L] Photographing tombstones for CD-ROM
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 23:04:05 EDT
In a message dated 4/14/99 2:07:41 PM, you wrote:
<<It is a whole
new avenue to think about. Modern technology will give us more tools to
work with.>>
Elissa,
My concern for not storing information on a CDROM is... will it be
readable in 20 years. The image may be on the cd but will we think some new
file format or other recording device is better and not be using the current
versions. If I would have videotaped a cemetery 10 years ago I would have
taped it in the Beta format for quality reasons. Try and find a someone who
can play a betamax tape today. Look at the change we've seen in digital
recording media, 51/4 then 3.5 floppies, now zips, jazz and cdroms. We have
may folks come into my place of business with their family recordings on reel
to reel audio and it is very hard to find someone to convert these to a
current audio cassette. Video tape is such a short lived material that I put
nothing of importance on them. Typical life of video tape is 20 years. I'm
glad books and records are still available for my gleaning with just a little
light and my ability to read. I don't mean to sound harsh or unable to change
with the times, I make my living selling digital cameras, scanners, printers
and digital video, but I think we need to make sure that our important
materials are keep in a very readable and accessable media. Along with our
new cd's and videos we must make sure to store the originals for the next
wave of recording media. I think about this everytime I look a one hundred
year old photograph of my ggg grandparents.
Ok I'll step down off my soap box now.
Leslie
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