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Guide to Digital Preservation from NIST

Posted by michael on 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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  1. Preserving Goatse (A troll, but an Insightful one) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    As you all may have known by now, the Infamous web site, Goatse.cx has been kicked off the internet. We now need to preserve its mirrors and help set up new ones. Here are two to get you started, help post more.

    Mirror 1
    Mirror 2

  2. Gentoo? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I use Gentoo; how does this effect me??

  3. Hmmmmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I wonder if post it notes are bad?

    I dunno. But I know your mom was.

  4. I got it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  5. Re:Liberal Hypocrisy by devnullish · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ahh, US election time again is it? Dang, my Slashdot watch must be running slow.

  6. Uh. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    For those slashdotters who is not familiar with the physical made up of these optical discs--

    I see you're the proud result of George W. Bush's "Is Our Children Learning?" campaign to leave no child behind. Personally, with that kind of grammer, I'd leave you like an abortion in a ladies room toilet.