(10-04-2024, 12:07 AM)l0st Wrote: I would add another aspect to digitization: bitrot.

I just the other day found a CF card from and old digital camera that stopped working sometime around 2011. Sadly, nothing fantastic on the card, just a bunch of pictures of me looking like I'm trying to figure out what's wrong with the camera. However, all of the images showed signs of significant bitrot and some were completely inaccessible.

I think this is something to keep in mind.

(10-12-2024, 01:19 PM)UltraBudgie Wrote: well since this thread has wrapped up i will address the thread title and complain about audiobooks, especially how many books are now audible exclusive only no print edition. that is really annoying!

(10-12-2024, 01:19 PM)UltraBudgie Wrote: i just find really distracting and horrible as i read faster than people talk and its chipmonks if you speed it up.

(10-14-2024, 09:09 PM)Maxmars Wrote: Follow up - 

From ArsTechnica: The Internet Archive and its 916 billion saved web pages are back online

However... the books libraries are still off-line... Makes you wonder, no?

The Internet Archive has brought its Wayback Machine back online "in a provisional, read-only manner" as it continues to recover from attacks that took the site down last week, founder Brewster Kahle said in a post last night. The archive.org home page points users to the now-functional Wayback Machine but notes that other Internet Archive services are temporarily offline.

Kahle said it was "safe to resume" the Wayback Machine's operations, but that it "might need further maintenance, in which case it will be suspended again." The Wayback Machine's "Save Page Now" feature that lets users capture a webpage manually is currently unavailable. The related openlibrary.org book-preservation website was still offline today.

Founded in 1996, the nonprofit Internet Archive crawls the web to preserve pages that are publicly available and has captured 916 billion web pages so far. It has a staff of 150 people and also provides free access to many videos, audio files, and books (though it was recently forced to delete 500,000 books after losing a copyright case).

It makes me wonder about commerce war... lawfare... and rampant control schemes justified by "unrealized capital gains."

(10-04-2024, 06:47 AM)ArMaP Wrote: All those things are considered when talking about digital preservation, along with format obsolescence. That's one of the reasons historical archives should save their scanned documents as uncompressed TIFFs, as that way the image can be shown even if some bits were damaged, while a compressed image needs to be completely good to be decompressed.
Or we can add parity files, but few people use them, as there is no real standard.

(10-17-2024, 08:17 PM)l0st Wrote: I believe TIFFs are actually technically compressed. I know its the same codec fax machines use. Bit failures though just result in random missing lines instead of total failure to display an image.