Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 16, No. 295.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 06:53:40 +0100
From: Patricia Galloway <galloway@gslis.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.293 the archaeological imagination
Digital preservation is a dense and much-discussed issue; see:
http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/
In the digital preservation field, "digital archaeology" has come to be
a term of art: it means what you have to do to recover and make readable
a file in a long-outdated format for which hardware and software have
died.
Pat Galloway
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