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On the other hand, if you have them scattered all over the place, you're more likely to lose them bit by bit as they get lost, forgotten, or broken. The other
by toomanybeersies 8y ago
On the other hand, if you have them scattered all over the place, you're more likely to lose them bit by bit as they get lost, forgotten, or broken.
The other reply to your comment mentioned the Library of Alexandria. If the library wasn't there to store all the books/scrolls, and they were instead scattered around, how many of them would've survived to the modern day?
Damned if you do, damned if you don't. The obvious answer is to ensure that we have as many backups as possible, in various locations. One of my tasks for the next few months is to backup all my important files (mostly photos), so that I have a copy at my house and a copy on the cloud. Then I'm also going to burn them to archival DVDs and send the DVDs to my parents' house, which is in another country. That way, if I somehow lose all my different backups, I've got much bigger problems (e.g. global disaster, nuclear war, etc).
- laurent123456 8y agoYes since most of these objects are unique, there's no easy way to preserve them. Proper funding for the museum would be a good start and then digitising as much as possible for backup. The high quality photos that the Portrait Gallery did of their collection is a great example [0]. For other objects, 3D scans would be a good way to preserve as much information as possible in case of a disaster. [0] https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitZoom/mw11574/William-Shakespeare?LinkID=mp04051&search=sas&sText=shakespeare&OConly=true&role=sit&rNo=0 https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitZoom/mw115...
- andai 8y ago3D scans of museum artefacts are a great idea for another reason: they make the collection accessible to anyone with 3D goggles (or a phone, really), rather than the tiny fraction of a percent able and willing to travel across the world.
- andai 8y agoAs someone who's lost data more than once due to problem between keyboard and chair, I like this idea of storing important data out of my own reach.