Dear archivist friends

[antennapedia]

I think this project might be relevant to your interests: Jason Scott wants to make November 2012 solve the file format problem month.In the last couple centuries, we’ve created a number of self-encapsulated data sets, or “files”. Be they letters, programs, tapes, stamped foil, piano rolls, you name it. And while many of those data sets are self-

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[brutti_ma_buoni]

*raises eyebrow*

Yes. That might be... quite interesting.

*scurries off*

(These days we're less worried about most common formats for the future, its the obscure old ones that are intractable. And custom databases. And CAD. And... well, yes.)

[draconin]

I don't have the sort of skill levels that would be useful to the project but I can certainly appreciate what a brilliant idea it is. I still have the start of a textbook on Mathematics and Music that I started and didn't finish back in the eighty's, unfortunately stored as Pagemaker 4 files that I can't read any more and don't have a printout of. I know I may as well delete it but...