Fwd: PBS film on Preservation of Knowledge

From: Connie Wolf (cwolf%LEHMANN.MOBOT.ORG@WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU)
Date: Tue Jan 06 1998 - 16:51:48 CST


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From: Connie Wolf <cwolf%LEHMANN.MOBOT.ORG@WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU>
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------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 17:38:07 -0500 (EST) From: Charlotte A Tancin <ct0u+@andrew.cmu.edu> To: cbhl@pgh.net Subject: Fwd: PBS film on Preservation

FYI--

 Into the Future: On the Preservation of Knowledge in the
    Electronic Age

                A FILM BY TERRY SANDERS
                NARRATED BY ROBERT MACNEIL
                AMERICAN FILM FOUNDATION, 1997
                JANUARY 13, 1998 ON PBS
                10:00pm (Eastern Time)
                (check local listings for actual air time)

"Into the Future" addresses the issues of preserving information with current technology, and planning for future technologies. Books stay legible for much longer than the current digital technology will stay current. Digitizing information which is currently only available on paper is one area of focus; how and whether to preserve information as fleeting and as constantly changing as the Web is another.

The above film is reviewed in the January 1998 issue of Scientific American at page 110. We did not request permission to reprint the review, so we will not quote from it in this email. Here is the URL so you can read it online:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/0198issue/0198review2.html

We did not request permission to reprint information on this program, so we will not quote from it in this email. Here is the URL for the information on this program at PBS ONLINE:

http://www.pbs.org/whatson/1998/01/descriptions/INFU.html

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