We are all creating new digital content every day: photos, documents, images, videos, etc.
But will we still be able to read them in 10 years time? Will historians be able to read them in 1000 years time?
Believe it or not, but this is already a real problem today:
Britain's National Archive estimates that it holds enough information to fill about 580,000 encyclopaedias in formats that are no longer widely available. And research by the British Library estimates that the delay caused by accessing and preserving old digital files costs European businesses about £2.7bn a year.
That's why the European Union is spending 4 million euros to to create a universal emulator that can open and play obsolete file formats.
Check out the full story on:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7886754.stm
Sunday 15 February 2009
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