Message-Id: <mailto:199508170601.BAA19985@library.wustl.edu> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 15:58:00 +1000 From: Jennifer Brasher <mailto:J.Brasher@INS.GU.EDU.AU> Subject: Re: Backup/archiving To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
>> Joel Wolfson wrote:
>>I agree with Mr. Schneider's response regarding the notion that whatever you
>>choose for media and technology is likely to be history in 10 years. If you
>>want to implement an archiving system, have part of your plan be to evaluate
>>the system every 5 to 10 years. That way you won't end up with stable media
>>and no way to retrieve it.
>
>I believe we'll have CD's as a storage media for years to come. There will
>undoubtedly be improvements in the media (increased capacity etc.) but it's
>not going to go away overnight. I base my thinking primarily on the actions
>of the marketplace.
>
>CD's, as we have seen, have virtually put an end to the vinyl-based record
>industry, and put a large dent in the pre-recorded tape market. Why?
I have heard that the new storage format will be a - solid state- format. As I understand it will be very small without anything that goes round and round or anything round in shape, and could be available in the next 5 years. I heard this from a multi- media expert David Bearman, Co- Chairman of "The International Conference on Hypermedia & Interactivity in Museums",1995, who was, I believe, involved in the production of a multi media CD for the National Gallery of Art, Washington. This was at a conference called "Interactive Multimedia Issues", May 3, 1994, given at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
He notes how pitifully small the storage space on multimedia CD's is,and how the National Gallery of London managed to fit only 3,000Super VGA images onto its product. He compares this to the needs of the Smithsonian Institute with 15 million photographic images.
On a separate note to do with organisation of knowledge.
He gave a paper entitled "Beyond Connectivity" which was very enlightening in its exploration of our new evolving'virtual'reality on the screen. He broaches theidea that creating something more sophisticated than surface connectivity between all these isolated projects must be the challenge,"the organization of knowledge and how to retrieve based on deep conceptual structures rather than words and colour intensity". I guess this is where our role as information experts is going to be more intense, to provide 'algorithmic links', that adhere to accepted standards; "to provide the navigation aids authored to explore......large complex bodies of knowledge' where' new genres of expression will be crafted."
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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw
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