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While that's true, I suspect that for archive, the original is best -- anyone can (software licenses notwithstanding) apply current state-of-the-art restoration
by andrewaylett 9y ago
While that's true, I suspect that for archive, the original is best -- anyone can (software licenses notwithstanding) apply current state-of-the-art restoration techniques, but if all we preserve is the restored version then it's going to be really difficult to apply a better restoration technique in ten years.
- msla 9y agoThe Internet Archive already does automatic conversion to uploaded artifacts, and it's very much an additive process: The original file is always preserved, and the new versions and file formats are stored alongside it.