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Delete Our Cultural Heritage?

by xvirk on 5/24/19, 11:29 AM with 1 comments

• by tannhaeuser on 5/24/19, 12:20 PM

  It's not just cultural heritage getting lost in today's post-standards IT era, we're also risking the loss of everyday documents (legal, medical, personal, political, educational documents, photos, and other media).

  > So are you going to [put in the effort and preserve media]? Well, neither am I.

  I can honestly say I've personally put a lot of effort into tech for long-term preservation of digital text [1], and so has a whole generation or two of markup experts. I just whish we could overcome the staged anti-establishment (anti-POSIX, anti-SQL, anti-XML, anti-everything) attitude towards established IT standards millenials and up get spoonfed by self-serving big media and copycat blogs.

  [1]: http://sgmljs.net/blog/blog1701.html