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British Library fears loss of history
THE BRITISH LIBRARY said that there is a danger of humanity "disappearing into a huge historical black hole" because information and communications, public and private, set out from the Internet, is not "saved" and archived.
Lynne Brindley, director of the British Library, said that data and information on our time that has been entrusted to the web is being lost as some sites close or the technology they have stored the information on becomes obsolete.
The British Library has established a department dedicated to the collection of all these digital materials which are stored on your computer in the same way that it stores books, newspapers, documents, maps, personal letters.
Quite what future generations might make of the INQ's Skype chats, or what use our emails will be to history, she didn't say. µ
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On a not-entirely-unrelated topic,
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ChemC
archive.org not enough?
Though the Internet Archive pays attention to robots.txt prohibitions. The NZ National Archives decided (controversially) to ignore this in their Web spidering efforts. What attitude will the British Library take?
Taking into account that brits are the greatest falsifiers of history to date, maybe its not such a bad thing.
Google is here - to archive all of your data for you.
The government will start recording it all in a database, which they will then duplicate to guard against loss by storing it on trains, taxis whorehouses or anywhere else that ministers and civil servants frequent....