tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post1334476725451383584..comments2024-03-28T07:23:23.408-07:00Comments on DSHR's Blog: Vint Cerf's talk at AAASDavid.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post-34155238198699038292015-03-12T16:53:08.279-07:002015-03-12T16:53:08.279-07:00Or here.Or <a href="http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2015/03/farewell-to-google-code.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.David.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post-87272573499050437512015-03-11T14:29:01.605-07:002015-03-11T14:29:01.605-07:00If you doubt the risk that, despite the efforts of...If you doubt the risk that, despite the efforts of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Data_Liberation_Front" rel="nofollow">this team</a>, Vint's company poses to your data, click <a href="http://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/visuel/2015/03/06/google-memorial-le-petit-musee-des-projets-google-abandonnes_4588392_4408996.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.David.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post-37038907616346683082015-02-20T07:23:46.526-08:002015-02-20T07:23:46.526-08:00Thank you, Vint. I am not claiming that any techno...Thank you, Vint. I am not claiming that any technology will save the interpretability or even the survival of bits for 1000 years. I would be interested in a plausible scenario by which a format with an open source renderer would be uninterpretable in a less speculative time-frame such as 100 years.<br /><br />I'm quite familiar with the Olive project and have <a href="http://blog.dshr.org/2014/04/skeptical-about-emulation.html" rel="nofollow">pointed to it from this blog</a>. I've blogged about emulation as a preservation strategy <a href="http://blog.dshr.org/2009/04/spring-cni-plenary-remix.html" rel="nofollow">since 2009</a> and in particular about the <a href="http://blog.dshr.org/2013/11/in-browser-emulation.html" rel="nofollow">encouraging recent progress</a> in delivering emulation in a user-friendly way at C-MU, Freiburg, the Internet Archive and elsewhere. But I'm very skeptical that these efforts will have a detectable impact on the survival of usable information for 1000 years.<br /><br />Its a sad fact that very little information survives from 1000 years ago. The same will be said 1000 years from now. In order to survive 1000 years information has to survive the first 100. The vast majority of information generated today will not survive 100 years for reasons that have nothing to do with the interpretability of the bits.<br /><br />We have a choice. We can deploy the limited resources society makes available for preservation to efforts that might or might not have an impact 1000 years from now, or to efforts that have a high probability of increasing the resources available to readers in the next few decades. I made my choice more than a decade and a half ago.David.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post-58850900664097753612015-02-20T03:56:25.873-08:002015-02-20T03:56:25.873-08:00Even open source may not save correct interpretabi...Even open source may not save correct interpretability of bits after 1000 years. Please see the OLIVE project at CMU. <br /><br />vintvint cerfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16615496827515836288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post-82177309655512072982015-02-17T08:14:32.739-08:002015-02-17T08:14:32.739-08:00Video of Vint's talk is available online at ht...Video of Vint's talk is available online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_DIwiSDaT8&feature=youtu.beAbchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14694536895791058464noreply@blogger.com