116: Bit Rot & You
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All this stuff we're making: where are we gonna store it? Programs, games, music, your CD archive—how long will it last on its medium, and what's the next step?
Links for this episode:
- Digital Revolution
An immersive exhibition of art, design, film, music and videogames. Christie saw this exhibit while in London this summer and it got her thinking about the challenge of preserving digital works. - Saving Games
Good article from Library Journal all about preserving digital games. - Time-Based Media and Digital Art at the Smithsonian Institution
The Time-Based Media and Digital Art Working Group, a pan-institutional Smithsonian initiative, intends to develop long-term and comprehensive preservation strategies for time-based art, and to establish a set of best practices for the acquisition, documentation, installation, and display of time-based art. - Museums Give Video Games Bonus Life, But The Next Level Awaits
Post from All Tech Considered talking about what's involved in adding video games to museums' permanent collections. - How Long Do CDs Last? It Depends, But Definitely Not Forever
Another from All Tech Considered: "Everyone always wants to know the answer to the same question, 'How long do CDs last? What's the average age?' " Youket says. But "there is no average, because there is no average disc." - Personal Archiving, from the Library of Congress
Everything you ever wanted to know about preserving your digital memories, including a "Personal Digital Archiving Day Kit." - Future Library
A thousand trees have been planted in Nordmarka, a forest just outside Oslo, which will supply paper for a special anthology of books to be printed in one hundred years time. Between now and then, one writer every year will contribute a text, with the writings held in trust, unpublished, until 2114. - Saving Games
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