Hmm; so we raise another issue - digital photographs. Is the "feeling of
the meeting is that it is sensible to get "hard copies" of the best from
one of the new services that prints to photo paper?
I am beginning to suspect that there may be sense in photographing the
hard copies of my web pages using 35mm film as a back up to the CDs
especially as the pages themselves are being converted to .pdf format for
archiving rather than being left as HTML.
My Brass Band is a small village band that does traditional village
things. For example it plays for the village Rogation service . This took
place on the Blewbury parish boundary this year, even though the St
Birinus' pilgrimage walk from Churn knob to Dorchester was cancelled
because of the Foot and Mouth outbreak. We took photographs of most "gigs"
this year to place "The Band" in some sort of context. It will celebrate
its 95th birthday soon and who knows what the future will bring. If the
evidence does survive 50 years the most exciting thing for historians will
probably the picture of the local Tesco where the band played Christmas
carols this year.
http://homepages.tesco.net/~jeknight/BBBArchive/BBAIndex.htm
At 15:58 02/01/02 +0000, you wrote:
>Not only is material from 1850 readable but from 1600 and 1300 and so on
>backwards. My concern is not only that CD's etc will certainly not be
>accessible within 30 years (much earlier, I would say) but that the ink on
>print-outs will be short-lived too. The ephemera that are so useful to
>Local Historians and which can be found in Record Offices (receipts, bills,
>day-to-day communications etc) will just not be there for those who follow
>us in years to come. I see no way out...we can't expect everyone to revert
>to pen and pencil.
>Gerard McSweeney
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Brian Read <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 8:49 PM
>Subject: Re: Archiving of online materials
>
>
> > I think it would be better to print your web site pages on paper, provided
> > there are not too many, and archive these in one of those very attractive
> > folders one can get with plasic transparent pockets. The fact that you
>have
> > filed the paper in a folder like this enhances the subject so that anyone
> > finding it in years to come might realize that the pages are not simply
> > ephemeral and out of date copies.
> >
> > I suspect that within about 30 years our present CD-ROM will seem very
> > archaic and not many will have the technology to read those written in
>2002.
> > Apart from this I think it possible that CDs will deteriotate physically
>so
> > much in the next 50 years (perhaps much sooner) that it may be impossible
>to
> > read them anyway.
> >
> > But paper is paper. Recently I saw a persoanl diary written in pencil in
>the
> > 1850s and it was just as clear as ink would have been. Perhaps even
>clearer.
> >
> > Brian Read
> >
> > > From: Jane Knight <[log in to unmask]>
> > > Reply-To: "From: Local-History list" <[log in to unmask]>
> > > Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 17:52:57 +0000
> > > To: [log in to unmask]
> > > Subject: Archiving of online materials
> > >
> > > This is a follow on from a look at Frank's excellent web site. What sort
>of
> > > archive policy do those of us that manage web sites have? I create web
> > > pages for a local brass band that I hope will be of interest to local
> > > historians in the future so I try and store everything to CD on a
>regular
> > > basis. Should we be seeking to deposit such things with local history
> > > societies? What do others think/do?
> > >
> > > Jane
> > > That passed so may this.
> >
> >
Jane
That passed so may this.
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