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Interesting phenomenon just happened. Judy went downtown to a one day conference this week. The proceedings for this event, like many others, were once distributed as piles of paper--bound, if the conference had a high enough price tag. In the last few years, people running conferences realized that it's much cheaper to distribute this material on CD, and so it has been done.
This year's proceedings were distributed on a 32 Mb. USB drive. God help the historians, archivists, and librarians. There'll need to be a college major, or at least a subfield, dedicated to tracking data storage formats and devices, and ideally being able to retrieve from them. Somebody should start developing this course now.
This year's proceedings were distributed on a 32 Mb. USB drive. God help the historians, archivists, and librarians. There'll need to be a college major, or at least a subfield, dedicated to tracking data storage formats and devices, and ideally being able to retrieve from them. Somebody should start developing this course now.