The BC Domesday Project has been rescued...

Domesday Redux: The rescue of the BBC Domesday Project videodiscs
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue36/tna/

See technology isn't that bad...
;-)

Marieke

Tinsley, Chris wrote:
> Don't forget the Domesday book was a government document produced for 
> tax purposes, it has a very long retention period. Also it is only 
> available in one place and is in Latin so I can't read it. How available 
> does that make it?
>  
> The Y2K Doomsday project was written for mainly schools and has no 
> retention. I believe that there are still some working copies available, 
> if there are more than one that makes it slightly better than the 
> original, and the technology exists to engineer it on to new systems, if 
> only there was a demand.
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> Chris Tinsley MSc
> Wiltshire County Council
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> Life Magazine photos
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> Agreed - Domesday Book circa 1068 and BBC Y2K Domesday Project -  which 
> one is still accessible? -  and the lights are still on!
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> David Bridge
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> Just because we can doesn't appear to me to be a good enough reason for 
> doing anything.  It results in an over-dependence on digital 
> technologies, that fail when the lights go out.
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> And let's not forget - we actually communicated with real people.  
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> I found myself yesterday moaning to an elderly relative about the 
> nostalgia of looking at traditional/paper newspaper in the 'good old 
> days' instead of looking at it on the internet.
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> I often wonder how useful it is that projects such as the one being 
> undertaken by Google come to fruition - it notes that these resources 
> have never been looked at will digitising them change that I wonder??  I 
> think there are many interesting issues attached to this.
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