At the risk of further flogging a dead horse, one has to acknowledge - neigh assert - that they knew<div>what they were doing. The press release on the site mentioned earlier states</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; "><div class="news-header" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; ">
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<div class="news-date" style="text-decoration: none; font-size: 0.7em; ">12th May 2010</div></div><div class="news-body" style="padding-bottom: 6px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 0.7em; ">
On Tuesday 18 May 2010, Planets will deposit a TimeCapsule to draw widespread attention to the physical and electronic challenges around preserving digital information for the long-term. </div></span><div><br></div>So they clearly acknowledge their goal. What makes it a bit more surprising is that some of the</div>
<div>partners in the project allowed this to happen. Among them: several European national libraries and</div><div>archives, including the British Library; IBM Netherlands; Microsoft Research.</div><div><br></div><div>It seems that "Swiss Fort Knox" is a company which provides secure storage, perhaps similar to</div>
<div>the American firm Iron Mountain (perhaps soon to change its name to Swiss Alpine Cave).</div><div><br></div><div> Peter Capek<br><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div></div>