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<div>Phil,</div>
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<div>For a serious archival effort we need to look at developing
dedicated archives that plan for migrating data in future. The use of
CDs now is putting off the headache until later when you discover that
some failed to be written properly or that the copying process may
have introduced errors and in any case all the files copied will need
to be checked against the original to determine if they are the same
or not. While there are extravagant claims about 100 year life for
CDs, that needs to be balanced against the percentage error rate we
know (from our own painful experience) exists for CD media. And then
there is the physical problem of handling all of those disks.</div>
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<div>On archiving linguistic data see<font face="Lucida Grande">
http://www.language-archives.org/</font> and in particular the
discussion on linguistic archiving here:<font face="Lucida Grande">
http://emeld.org/school/classroom/archives/index.html</font>.</div>
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<div>All the best,</div>
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<div>Nick Thieberger</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Thanks Jim & Robert!<br>
<br>
For non-replaceable language recordings, it makes sense to use
media<br>
that has the greatest longevity. This will make archiving less
of a<br>
worry and more of a "best practice".<br>
<br>
I imagine that the archival quality ratings for the gold-plated CDRs
are<br>
applicable also to the gold-plated DVDRs. Since I will be
working with<br>
digital video it might be a good practice to use this media too.<br>
<br>
I took a shallow look on the internet and found that Wipedia has a
nice<br>
summary of CDRs worth looking at. They mention Mitsui.<br>
<br>
CDR<br>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-R<br>
<br>
Also, here is a link to Mitsui or Mitsui MAM-A.<br>
http://store.mam-a-store.com/standard---archive-gold.html<br>
<br>
For better pricing, you can get the Mitsui MAM-A media a bit
cheaper<br>
here.<br>
http://www.american-digital.com/prodsite/<br>
<br>
later,<br>
<br>
Phil Cash Cash<br>
UofA, ILAT</blockquote>
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