Guide to Digital Preservation from NIST

Posted by michael on Saturday January 24, 2004 @12:33AM from the jesus-saves dept.

Little Hamster writes "The scientists working on the Digital Preservation Program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released an excellent 50 page guide on care and handling of CDs and DVDs for long term storage. It talks about the effects of light, moisture, radiation, scratches, marking, adhesive labels, and even playback on the discs. For those slashdotters who is not familiar with the physical made up of these optical discs, there is a very nice chapter explaining all the background. And if you only want to know how to care for your precious data, there is a one page summary. And yes, they agreed that glued-on labels are harmful."

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Oh come on... by devnullish · 2004-01-24 00:39 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Or come off it! Yes, osme of the tips are interesting, but if some idiot (who reads Slashdot and/or would visit a web site regarding something like this) actually needs to be told glued on labels are bad - well I guess idiots are like rabbits, they like to profusely populate ;) I'm not criticizing the article (nor am I trolling), I just truly wonder why someone would need to be told some of the things mentioned. I guess common sense is like a geek, it does profusely populate.