Archiving Data¶
BBC Domesday Project¶
1986 Project to do a modern-day Domesday book (early crowd-sourcing)- Used “BBC Master” computers with data on laserdisc
- Collected 147,819 pages of text and 23,225 photos
- Media expiring and obsolete technology put the data at risk!
- Required emulation of software
- Images restored from original masters
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday
- Don't use obscure formats!
- Don't use obscure media!
- Don't rely on technology being available!
- Do keep original source material!
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