Preserving technically obsolete data

[James at]

Given the discussions on retrieval of information from technically obsolete media I thought that the following might be of interest.

Jim Matta
jmatta at bloomu.edu


A new report from the Digital Library Federation explores options
for salvaging quantitative data stored in technically obsolete
formats and its associated documentation stored on paper.

"Preserving the Whole: A Two-Track Approach to Rescuing Social
Science Data and Metadata" reports on a project at Yale University
to migrate - or move into currently accessible formats - public
option survey data collected and encoded in the 1970's.

"Preserving the Whole" is available on the Web site of the Digital
Library Federation:

http://www.clir.org/diglib/dlfhomepage.htm 

and in print form from the Council on Library and Information Resources
CLIR) for $15 prepaid, including postage and handling.