Deborah,

Bill does address some of the more salient points (being from the third 
largest nuclear power in the world he tends to dwell on the technology 
side). The largest hinderence I see to maintaining current technolgy for 50 
years is going to be the abilty of folks to run it. How many of you folks 
remember your DOS commands? Did you you keep a copy of DOS for Dummies 
laying around so you can use it? What about the arcane key strokes? So you 
have a disk, do you remember how to run it?

Having said that, Yes I think that just about about anything can be achieved 
with enough money. The question is, do you get an adequate return on the 
investment. Even Carlin seemed to adopt that attitude when discussing 
permanent records.

Keep in mind also, the "record" in the electronic world is different from 
the paper world. In paper world the original version is the Record (the 
shortest distance between two points is a straight line). In the electronic 
world, the most recent version is the record (the shortest distance between 
two points may not be a straight line). The question then becomes for what 
purpose are you retaining non record material fro 50 years? Seems like an 
expensive and time consuming waste of resources.


Chris Flynn

>From: "Deborah Tamborski would subscribe someone."              
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>Subject: Question
>Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 20:29:44 -0400
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>Presently I am in a Library and Information Science Graduate program at 
>Queens College.  As one of our exercises we have to send out and question 
>for List serv and hopefully get reply's back and then write about them.
>
>Here is my question?
>
>What do you think some of the problems are in Archiving Electronic Records? 
>  Do you think it is possible to be able to archive these records and still 
>read them in lets say 50 years from now?
>
>Deborah
>
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