As if Digital Preservation wasn't hard
enough to tackle...!
Steven Davies
Archivist / Archifydd
Flintshire Record Office / Archifdy Sir y Fflint
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There's interesting. On this I claim prior art, although
I doubt I could
contemplate challenging IBM on that. But I did present and discuss on
a number of occasions the idea of making file and folder icons look
more worn over time as an indication of how frequently they had been used
and extending the visual metaphor in a number of ways in digital records
management systems as well as filesystem browsers. Those ideas themselves
were simple and obvious extensions to work SGI had been doing on 3D visual
metaphors for filesystem browsers; all this was in the mid-to-late 1990s.
It seemed ludicrous to me then, and does now, that such an idea could or
should be patented. Thanks as always, Peter, for sharing it!
On 25/11/11 14:06, Peter Kurilecz wrote:
> IBM Patents Idea of Making Your Data Crappier Over Time
> IBM refers to this particular invention as an "aging file system"
that simulates
> a natural aging process to documents printed on paper. For example
this aging
> process could be automatically applied to .doc, .jpg or .gif files,
a patent
> filing states
>
>
> http://bit.ly/twfsnN
>
> Source:
> http://www.tomshardware.com/news/ibm-file-degradation-aging-patent,14060.html
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