29th June 2007, 02:53 PM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by kevin wooldridge
I can't really understand one strand of this discussion which suggests that digital photographs are less stable than 'conventional' silver halide or colour-dye photographs. I mean that's just rubbish.
Digital photographs (as the name suggests) are created from a code sequence that once established is permanently stable. What is unstable (and untested) is the method of storage and display of photographs created from digital data. If in doubt about the carrier, isn't it possible to preserve the code sequence in some other form?
You mean by hard-copy printing the digital text? That's the only alternative I can think of. Have you got somewhere we could put it all?
As an example, Here at VMP we have the IT assets of a medium sized planet operated by teams of skilled IT drones. Yet all my digital archive reports from most of the last five years (including phgotographs etc.) have been put beyond use due to the failure of our regularly updated archive server.
Sadly no system is fallible. My lack of faith in digital archiving disapoints even myself.
D. Vader
Senior Consultant
Vader Maull & Palpatine
Archaeological Consultants
Your powers are weak, Curator