Incredible essay about the importance and challenges of digital archival by @maxy.bsky.social, as well as the various imperfect strategies to achieve “century-scale” digital archives. lil.law.harvard.edu/century-scal... 1/ - ThreadSky

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molly.wiki • 78 days ago

Incredible essay about the importance and challenges of digital archival by @maxy.bsky.social, as well as the various imperfect strategies to achieve “century-scale” digital archives.

https://lil.law.harvard.edu/century-scale-storage/

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dgansen.bsky.social•78 days ago

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stevereadsydney.bsky.social•77 days ago

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liarspeaksthetruth.bsky.social•78 days ago

For all the digital archives in the world, we still have cuneiform tablets that are intact and legible thousands of years later.

absolutereality.blog•77 days ago

📌 digital archives, preservation of digital born media

molly.wiki•78 days ago

"We picked a century scale because most physical objects can survive 100 years in good care. It is attainable, and yet we selected it because the design of mainstream digital storage mediums are nowhere close to even considering this mark."

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molly.wiki•78 days ago