Coral Hess

Muddy point: I'm not sure I understand what an attribute is in XML. We saw a schema and how to set an attribute up in it, but not how it would look in the XML that fit the schema. (Apologies for imprecise terminology.)

Reading response (digital preservation - list below):

I don't know a lot about physical archiving, but it seems surprising to me that archivers didn't figure out immediately, when beginning digital projects, that of course the rules would be different, and different strategies would have to be employed. (Hindsight is 20/20, yes.)

I keep thinking that the problem of digital preservation shouldn't be so hard. We still have tape drives, after all--which are not so good for on-the-fly access, but do very well at storing large amounts of data for a long time. Why should 160GB hard drives, perhaps arranged RAID-style, not work out for a similarly large amount of time? Do we predict that we will move away from hard drives so soon? (We might! But it isn't as though we'd magically lose the ability to access them right away.) When you migrate to a new technology, migrate your archives, too; it seems logical. I don't think the cost of memory is going to skyrocket, any time soon. I wonder if maybe some kind of networked storage service is going to be the way to go--one institution does all the work for a bunch of others? (I'm thinking of a colloquium of universities more than a corporation, here.)


http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~dlwkshop/paper_hedstrom.pdf
http://www.dpconline.org/docs/lavoie_OAIS.pdf
http://www.dpconline.org/graphics/handbook/index.html
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july07/littman/07littman.html

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