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Digital Archivists: Protecting Public Data from Erasure

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206 points rbanffy | 3 comments | 02 Apr 25 16:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.918s | source
1. hsuduebc2 ◴[02 Apr 25 19:15 UTC] No.43560420[source]▶
I wonder. Maybe for this would be blockchain actually usefull technology?
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2. badlibrarian ◴[03 Apr 25 00:44 UTC] No.43563490[source]▶
https://blog.archive.org/2023/10/20/celebrating-1-petabyte-o...

Though given the space in general and some of the people involved it all should be audited very carefully.

3. jefurii ◴[03 Apr 25 16:02 UTC] No.43571676[source]▶
git-annex is not exactly blockchain but because of the way it operates -- storing files by their hashes, the whole Git commit structure -- it gives you several useful things: It becomes easy to clone repositories while guaranteeing that clones are identical. It also becomes easy to ensure that files are not tampered with.