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IP: Digital Domesday Book lasts 15 years not 1000
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 14:24:54 -0500
------ Forwarded Message From: Adam Aston <adam_aston () businessweek com> Organization: BusinessWeek / The McGraw-hill Company Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 12:26:16 -0500 To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: Digital Domesday Book lasts 15 years not 1000 dave, remarkable example of the fragility of digital media and digital culture... - adam ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Date: Sunday, March 03, 2002, 2:57 PM -0500 To: BOOK_ARTS-L () LISTSERV SYR EDU Subject: Digital Domesday Book lasts 15 years not 1000 *********************************************** CENTRAL NEW YORK BOOK ARTS: TRADITIONAL TO INNOVATIVE See The Exhibition Online, And Order Your Catalog. <http://www.philobiblon.com> *********************************************** Digital Domesday Book lasts 15 years not 1000 Robin McKie and Vanessa Thorpe Sunday March 3, 2002 The Observer It was meant to be a showcase for Britain's electronic prowess - a computer-based, multimedia version of the Domesday Book. But 16 years after it was created, the =A32.5 million BBC Domesday Project has achieved an unexpected and unwelcome status: it is now unreadable. The special computers developed to play the 12in video discs of text, photographs, maps and archive footage of British life are - quite simply - obsolete. As a result, no one can access the reams of project information - equivalent to several sets of encyclopaedias - that were assembled about the state of the nation in 1986. By contrast, the original Domesday Book - an inventory of eleventh-century England compiled in 1086 by Norman monks - is in fine condition in the Public Record Office, Kew, and can be accessed by anyone who can read and has the right credentials. ------ End of Forwarded Message For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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