[AT] Spam> Re: OT--taped audio to CD audio??

[Larry Goss]

BINGO!  You said it well, Roy.  My only comment on the archiving concerns possible relevance and content of the materials.  

We have a number of documents dating from Fort Delaware during the Civil War, one-of-a-kind publications from the early days of the Akron public school system, 200 letters written by first-generation homesteaders in Colorado, 100 volumes of daily diaries for the century from 1869 to 1969 in Colorado, etc.  The interest in these among researchers is a bit surprising.  The venues and specialty museums for these items are already in place.  Even the candid photos that I archived last year seem to have general interest.  The entire album dates from 1921-1928, and it documents what life was like during the Roaring Twenties in and around Boulder, Colorado.  For that purpose, it holds interest even if you don't know who any of the people are.  Five of the images have been selected for inclusion in a commemorative deck of playing cards for historic Boulder that is due to be printed this spring.

One of these days, I've got to pull out the Kodachrome transparencies that were taken when my grandfather purchased a mounted single-row corn picker for his 1927 John Deere D.  I think others on this forum would probably enjoy seeing them.

FWIW, Fort Delaware (Pea Patch Island) was known as the Andersonville of the North.

Larry


----- Original Message -----
From: Roy Morgan <k1lky at earthlink.net>
Date: Sunday, March 29, 2009 23:34
Subject: Re: [AT] Spam> Re:  OT--taped audio to CD audio??
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>

> 
> On Mar 29, 2009, at 6:50 PM, David Bruce wrote:
> 
> > Larry,
> >
> > Digital archiving 101 might be off topic but I'm listening.
> >
> > I have already moved to archiving much of my monthly correspondence
> > (bills, receipts, etc) to digital form for ease of retrieval.
> 
> One of my former co-workers at NIST (formerly National Bureau 
> of  
> Standards) had been the microfilm expert there.  That is, 
> he knew the  
> Archivist of the United States by first name, and had spend his 
> career  
> studying and improving microfilm image storage science and 
> practice.  
> His conclusion after a life of working with archives was 
> this  
> (paraphrased by me):
> 
> If you want ease of use and practical daily application, go 
> digital.  
> Nothing better.  But don't count on any record to last for long.
> 
> If you really want to archive something, microfilm is the 
> only  
> answer.  Period.
> 
> His frame of reference for archiving was "in perpetuity".  
> That is  
> nearly forever.
> 
> If you are storing your financial records and tax things, do 
> keep in  
> mind the regulations demand that you only keep 5 or 7 years of 
> stuff  
> (or something like that).  If you are interested in 
> family  
> photographs, do ask yourself how long anyone might be interested 
> in  
> Aunt Matilda's 90th birthday party pictures.  If you want 
> to preserve  
> Uncle Henry's WW-I military record for 10 generations, either do 
> NOT  
> put it on CD, or be prepared for continuous data migration.
> 
> Roy
> 
> Roy Morgan
> k1lky at earthlink.net
> 529 Cobb St.
> Groton NY, 13073
> 
> 
> 
> 
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