Comments on: A timebomb or a trainwreck-in-waiting? http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2007/07/04/a-timebomb-or-a-trainwreck-in-waiting/ A Website Dedicated to Information/Data Quality Disasters from Around the World Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:27:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Daragh O Brien http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2007/07/04/a-timebomb-or-a-trainwreck-in-waiting/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Daragh O Brien Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:26:08 +0000 http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2007/07/04/a-timebomb-or-a-trainwreck-in-waiting/#comment-20 I found this link to an interesting academic paper on the subject... http://jodi.tamu.edu/Articles/v06/i03/Beall/ I found this link to an interesting academic paper on the subject…
http://jodi.tamu.edu/Articles/v06/i03/Beall/

]]> By: Keith Underdown http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2007/07/04/a-timebomb-or-a-trainwreck-in-waiting/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Keith Underdown Sun, 08 Jul 2007 10:31:48 +0000 http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2007/07/04/a-timebomb-or-a-trainwreck-in-waiting/#comment-8 The National Archives and Microsoft have signed a deal to enable data in Microsoft proprietary formats to be recovered and brought into an update (and eventually open?) format. Microsoft have supplied a series of virtual PC's with all combination of Microsoft OS and Office products. See http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/applications/desktop/news/index.cfm?newsid=3843 for more details The National Archives and Microsoft have signed a deal to enable data in Microsoft proprietary formats to be recovered and brought into an update (and eventually open?) format. Microsoft have supplied a series of virtual PC’s with all combination of Microsoft OS and Office products.

See http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/applications/desktop/news/index.cfm?newsid=3843 for more details

]]> By: Keith Underdown http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2007/07/04/a-timebomb-or-a-trainwreck-in-waiting/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Keith Underdown Fri, 06 Jul 2007 19:06:41 +0000 http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2007/07/04/a-timebomb-or-a-trainwreck-in-waiting/#comment-7 The National Archives of England and Wales have a section on their website (see http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/pronom/) which details how to get from an outdated fileformat to a modern one, assuming the file can be read and also advice on what physical media to use for long term storage. My son works on the project so I will get him to post better explanation. I have also heard rumours of an entrepeneur with a warehouse full of old kit who wil attempt to grag fiels of out moded media. The National Archives of England and Wales have a section on their website (see http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/pronom/) which details how to get from an outdated fileformat to a modern one, assuming the file can be read and also advice on what physical media to use for long term storage.

My son works on the project so I will get him to post better explanation.

I have also heard rumours of an entrepeneur with a warehouse full of old kit who wil attempt to grag fiels of out moded media.

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