On Tuesday, July 25, 2000, Nelson Winkless said:

> >days. Astonishingly, they recorded everything on 16mm film.
> What? Not
> >DV? Nope, old-fashioned cellulose acetate film.
>
> > Archivist Luba Zakharoff explained patiently that experience
> >demonstrates that such film can be preserved for at least
> fifty years.

Which reminds me that some time ago I came accross an article (which I have now
mislaid) that discussed the concept of saving digitial items as dots on
acid-free paper! The concept being that the paper could last 400 years, and
hopefully, at any time in the human history, we will be able to at least read
dots from the paper and recreate the original item. (Anybody know what I'm
talking about - and if there is a web site about it?)

Maybe Henry - that's the sort of printint I shoud be doing.

I wonder how many pages it would take to archive the BBC website. Richard -
don't let BBC sell off it's storage space yet - you could well be filling it
with paper!

regards,
Bryn

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