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> Barring a simultaneous complete and total collapse of all civilizations on Earth Many archives are not replicated, at least not including all important piece
by est31 7y ago
> Barring a simultaneous complete and total collapse of all civilizations on Earth
Many archives are not replicated, at least not including all important pieces. Also note that what's worth keeping vs what's unimportant might change over time. Bach and Vivaldi only became famous after their death. I don't say that everything should be preserved forever, just that it's kept in mind.
- azernik 7y agoRight now, Spotify and Apple Music and Google Play are holding on to recordings, in hundreds of replicas, of garage bands who've only been heard by 1000 people in their whole history. If one of those services goes out of businesses, there are others. Archivists like the Library of Congress use in-house solutions comparable to S3 Glacier or Google Archival Storage, where use of longer-lived media and copying to new media is cheap enough to preserve fantastic amounts of information. A caveat - though the risk of losing art due to loss or destruction of physical media is lower than ever, we still have to contend with intentional destruction of copies by the creator, for business or security reasons.
- Godel_unicode 7y agor/datahorders would like to have a word with you. Also the internet archive, the Google art/book projects, Wikipedia, etc.