This arises out of the recent (Feb. 27) House of Commons-located fanfare
and announcement of the Digital Preservation Coalition in the UK. One of
the stories told that day is of the BBC Domesday book project. The
CEDARS project in the UK (a JISC-funded project of Cambridge, Oxford and
Leeds University Libraries) is developing demonstration digital archiving
techniques, and rescuing the optical disks of the BBC Domesday is one of
them. More information available at the DPC site,
<URL:http://www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/preservation/prescoalition.html>. --pg
Clifford Scheiner wrote:
> The following comes from the 3/11/02 issue of Informationweek.com
> and speaks for itself. - C.J. Scheiner
>
> "The idea was to create a British tech showcase: a digital time
> capsule, a multimedia version of the DOMESDAY BOOK, showing life in
> the United Kingdom circa 1986. The original, compiled by Norman monks
> in 1086, is doing fine, but the $3.6 million BBC Domesday Project is
> already unreadable. The computers needed to play the 12-inch laser
> discs are almost extinct. Specialists are working to recover the
> discs' data" - Esther Schindler
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