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oh yeah of course, it was a very theoretical "if i dig up this file in 30 years" - for the most part i access and update these files on the regular and have mul
by avh02 10y ago
oh yeah of course, it was a very theoretical "if i dig up this file in 30 years" - for the most part i access and update these files on the regular and have multiple backups. - but not much will beat stability of a format when things do go very wrong.
I can't find it now, but I remember reading about an organisation trying to archive work that had been on floppies and even when the data was read, the file formats were obsolete. so I wanted to draw the question on that kind of parallel.
as for the relationship format - definitely with visas/passports, a passport will have several visas on it, and will have taken journeys on it, etc. - again, i haven't done this _yet_ but it's been on my mind for a good year now and am just trying to take down my barriers to doing it.
- jdormit 10y agoAh understood. In that case, I'll echo the comments below - I would choose SQLite to preserve data relationships with automated dumps to plain text (maybe JSON? Something parseable, anyway), since I can't imagine utf8-encoded text going obselete to the point where no programs exist that can read in the foreseeable future.