Guests: MARGARET HEDSTROM
Associate Professor, School of Information
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan ROBERT WHITE
University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Engineering and Public Policy
Director, Data Systems Storage Center
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania BREWSTER KAHLE
Founder, The Internet Archive
San Francisco, California JIM MASON
Rosetta Disk Project Manager
The Long Now Foundation
San Francisco, California This week, CNN announced plans to digitize all of its video archives, allowing quick access to thousands of hours of footage. The company Corbis has decided to move the Bettmann Archive of photographs into climate-controlled underground mines, buying time as archivists catalog and digitize the collection's millions of images. But how can we ensure that all this digital information is usable in decades to come? This hour, we'll take a look at the problems of preserving bits and bytes. Plus, designing a new Rosetta stone.
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