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That requires an attentive, active, and costly effort to maintain an archive, as opposed to a medium that survives even when forgotten.
by teacup50 12y ago
That requires an attentive, active, and costly effort to maintain an archive, as opposed to a medium that survives even when forgotten.
- ralmidani 12y agoOn a large scale, don't physical archives need maintenance, as well? People need to keep the items stored in accordance with some sort of system (electronic formats make this easier), theft and fire prevention are needed, not to mention the amount of real estate that has to be bought, leased, and/or managed. On a smaller scale, when someone moves, they have to move, or pay someone to move, their archive for them (I got a taste of this back in November).
- teacup50 12y agoMany valuable things don't wind up in an archive until after they'd have already been lost; a modern example of "what if she'd used Flickr?" would be: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_Maier http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_Maier Physical archives do require maintenance, but unlike servers, they don't convert electricity to heat at a prodigious pace, have a much simpler set of failure modes and environmental constraints, and generally remain readable even if you forget about them