Re: Has anyone looked at digital archiving?

[Graham Toal <gtoal () UTPA EDU>]

> The main advantage of microfiche or microfilm is reduced 
> physical storage space.  One would need to compare the costs 
> of offsite storage of paper with the costs of microfiche or 
> microfilm before deciding to go with the latter on storage 
> space grounds, though.

Look at 2-d barcodes, if you trust your paper.  Of course you
lose the redundancy of fonts and English words, but they're
hyperredundant anyway.  You could use a 2-D barcode with ECC.

See the links in this halfbakery article:

http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Optical_20Storage_20on_20Paper#1141071145

(Cool site by the way, if you like that kind of thing)

G