[SPG_Active_Members] Swiss format archive

[Carol Hutchins]

To follow the trail on BBC Domesday, try looking for CAMiLEON project, 
joint between Michigan and Leeds Universities


http://www2.si.umich.edu/CAMILEON/index.html




Tim Shoppa wrote:
> Olin Sibert <osibert at siliconkeep.com> wrote:
>> I think calling this a "publicity stunt" is being too kind.
>>
>> They seem to be claiming that they have created some unique physical 
>> artifact, which must be kept secret and stored safely away untouched 
>> by human hands, as if it's some kind of digital Rosetta Stone 
>> awaiting a future Champollion to discover it and magically bring enlightenment.
> 
> I agree, sounds exactly like the BBC Domesday Project... a multi-year
> project, choosing its own unique "special for forever" formats,
> published in 1986, stuck in the vaults at the UK National Data Archive,
> and nigh-inaccessible in 2002. OK, that's a little unfair. But the
> idea of saying "this is the one magic key and we're gonna lock it up"
> has a lot in common with BBC Domesday.
> 
> Speaking of which, the BBC Domesday project laserdiscs were recovered in
> the early 2000's... converted to web type formats...
> and put on the web... but where? Google and Wikipedia aren't helping me
> much. Domesday1986.com is not helpful. I will poke around archive.org but
> getting to the actually content of the 1986 publication seems obscure.
> 
>> What bosh. If they really wanted to help "future generations to read 
>> data stored using defunct technology", they'd collect the information 
>> publicly, and store replicas of it all over the world (e.g., the 
>> Internet).
> 
> Sounds like, e.g. bitsavers :-).
> 
> Tim.
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