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Topic: Digital Knowldge Disappearing - Industry, Academia, Government Struggle to Cope
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Critical Mass2
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posted 19 April 2006 12:59 PM
"Engineers and information specialists from government, industry and academia agreed at a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) workshop that immediate action is needed to keep vast amounts of digital knowledge from disappearing into cyberspace or becoming in 200, or even 20 years, as incomprehensible as the markings on Babylonian cuneiform tablets...According to estimates offered at the conference, the world churns out new digital information equivalent to the entire collection of the U.S. Library of Congress every 15 minutes. Such a proliferation of information in digital format, occurring almost 100 times a day, adds up to approximately five exabytes (five quintillion bytes or five billion gigabytes) a year."NIST mini-article More techie stuff on knowledge preservation
From: AKA Critical Mass or Critical Mass3 - Undecided in Ottawa/Montreal | Registered: Nov 2005
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