Hi everybody; been quite awhile since I posted here. But I thought you 
might find it interesting to hear about efforts to recover older 
population microdata from around the world. For several years we've been 
working with the University of Minnesota to convert and preserve data from 
(just a few examples): Romania, Egypt, Mali, Sudan, Hong Kong, etc. This 
mostly very old computer media often require special cleaning and software 
to recover the data. See http://www.ipums.org/ for background on the 
eventual use for that data.

This year, the National Science Foundation has provided a grant by which 
IPUMS, through my company, Muller Media Conversions, will set up a data 
recovery lab in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The attached press release talks about 
it.

The story can also be found here: 
http://www.mullermedia.com/contact_about_MMC/company_news/

In March, I was privileged to address an IPUMS-sponsored workshop for 
statisticians from 34 countries. The presentation compared our heritage of 
older computer data around the world to the Great Library of Alexandria, 
which historians now believe largely wasted away due to lack of attention--
just like that old media. I hope soon to have cleaned up (less self-
promotional :-) version of that presentation available for any interested 
group members.

Best regards,  Chris Muller
www.mullermedia.com




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