Saving Digital History

Gavinsblog writes "The Washington Post is reporting that the Library of Congress in the U.S. plans to initiate the $100 million National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP). It is hoped that the project will lead to the preservation of data that is constantly changing on the Internet. But I wonder who will choose what is worth saving?" This may remind you of the LOC's effort to preserve and digitize the audio collection in the National Recording Registry.

Comments

skip slashdot.

[Anonymous Coward]

No need to add slashdot as one of the website. They keep reposting stories here as an initiative to preserve their own history.

Re:Will There Be a EUian Counterpart?

[Pharmboy]

EUians hate to have America take the lead on everything so I imagine France will try to create an EUian consortium to do their own version.

"Bonjour, you cheese eating, surrender monkeys"


With Belgium and Germany, and call it the World Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (WDIIPP), right? ;)

That's good.

[Black Parrot]

I deleted all my porn, and I was afraid I wouldn't be able to get it again when I need it.

Re:That's good.

[ubugly2]

<stonerchick>i was on slashdot and all of a sudden beepbeepbeepbeep and all my porn was gone....it was really good porn</stonerchick>

Something Old, Something New

[SparklesMalone]

How much energy should humanity spend remembering its past? I love history, but frankly I'd rather they fund more discoveries (i.e. NASA) than archive drivel like my slashdot musings.

Re:Something Old, Something New

[cyril3]

I have no doubt there will be a special filter for your material.

sloshdat and Mod Point for history

[QEDog]

"But I wonder who will choose what is worth saving?"

Well, maybe they can come up with a system where people post what they think it is important in history and then some of the same people moderate that using a unit called Mod Points up or down to see if they are or not worth saving... maybe call it sloshdat.

A mechanism would be deviced to protect the figures that make history against the people reading the history, and effect that could be called Sloshdatted.

I'm sure that with a system like this, historic figures such as many of the presidents would be Modded Down, while anyone who trashes an established monopolistic corporation would appear in the history books.

A system like this, would, without any doubt, save and Mod Up a comment like the present one for future generations.

Please tell me.....

[Scrab]

that the goatse man will NOT be preserved in this way......

*shudders*

Open plea

[grub]

Dear U.S. Library of Congress,

Although not a U.S. citizen, I implore you to retain redundant backups of the website goatse.cx. Losing this website to a disaster would be tantamount to losing the collective works of Shakespeare, DaVinci and Picasso. The goatse.cx guy is an artist in the truest sense of the word.

Yours very truly,

grubby

No material can be ignored.

[Ignorant Aardvark]

We need to take extra precautions to preserve some "movies", because, ahhh, they contain certain "positions" unlikely to be witnessed before or since outside of their "industry." I will therefore generously donate 500 burnt CD's of such movies to the people compiling this digital library.

Wonder what Disney will think

[UTPinky]

So what I want to know, is if one of Disney's movies get archived, will they sue the Library of Congress?