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Digital Archivists: Protecting Public Data from Erasure

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206 points rbanffy | 1 comments | 02 Apr 25 16:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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Teever ◴[02 Apr 25 17:08 UTC] No.43558875[source]▶
I made this related submission[0] recently but it was flagged.

This stuff is very important to talk about so I hope that this submission by rbanffy isn't also flagged.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43543075

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donnachangstein ◴[02 Apr 25 17:26 UTC] No.43559085[source]▶
No it isn't. It's merely a cause du jour for data hoarders to justify their hobby in light of this Chicken Little hysteria.

30 years ago it was thought collecting every issue of magazines like TV Guide was important. No one even knows what that is anymore.

No one is ever going to look at 99% of this data. In the meantime, send more hard drives for my NAS!!

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peppermill ◴[02 Apr 25 17:53 UTC] No.43559333[source]▶
I think the data being discussed is quite a bit different than old TV Guides...
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1. zorpner ◴[02 Apr 25 21:44 UTC] No.43562009[source]▶
I wonder if those would be useful in identifying the potential contents of specific Marion Stokes tapes (my understanding is that they're sorted, but are only labeled with channel and date/time and are being archived slowly): https://libwww.freelibrary.org/blog/post/5393