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Old 10-21-2010, 01:29 PM   #42
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Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald View Post
Again, another example why files can't be stored and forgotten. Before file formats and/or storage media become completely obsolete, they should be converted to later formats and/or storage media. Doing so may seem to be a lot of work at the time of the conversion (and, in the case of huge, corporate data repositories, expensive) but failing to do so will result in scenarios such as this.
But this is why such a solution it impractical for the Library of Congress.
Their inventory is huge, and grows daily. They could not convert their inventory over to a new format before that format itself became obsolete. The conversion process would just keep getting further and further behind.
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