Digital art vanishing as old technology fades away

I think these guys / preservers need to speak to someone who knows IT better.
I dont think u can blame the CD - ROM / media. Files can be store on many types of storage devices - this is not an excuse.
When it comes to the format of the file, is the media in Bitmap / PNG / ... format and the sound Wave files? If so, there should be no problem.
If not, CHANGE THE FORMAT!

This seems to be a silly situation.
 
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I agree. Virtualise the whole museum - you can then even set the speed of the VM which should solve the problem of things running too fast. And backups will be much easier to do.
 
Nothing new. I deal with this too (still running Multimate.) A lot of people have to deal with it, look at CNC machines that are programmed via 5.25" floppy disks. I've still got a few of those drives running (on Windows 95 machines), just in case I need to retrieve anything ancient. The drives don't even attract high bids on ebay, they're too common. Same thing with obsolete computers. Get a few old machines, use them to copy the stuff over to a new system, and run it on that.
 
I dont get it. Why dont they just convert the Media to the most reliable format at the time every 5 years so the data get preserved?

Also why use cd roms to store data,Everyone knows Ex Harddrives are the way foward now And it would reduce that fileing cabinet of CDs.
 
A good thing. Most of the digital and installation art I've seen is crap. Let it die.
 
Force your suppliers to store material in open formats. That way M$, Peach and the likes cannot kill off old technology/formats and make your data unreadable. Worst case then would be to get someone to create a new app to read your old data. Theoretically the document standards at least should be available for ever.
 
sorry if they can't get to work they not doing it right
 
I was discussing this with my friend the other day. To properly store digital data, you need to spend money to upgrade/migrate it to new drives all the time. Luckily with time you'll use fewer and fewer as capacities increase!
 
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