Preserving your bits for 100 years

The Storage Networking Industry Association's (SNIA) has a 100 Year Archive Task Force, working to "define best practices and storage standards for long-term digital information retention."

They predict a coming archive crisis at the corporate level, with format problems (what we call "Dear Appy") and also the need to migrate physical storage. They have some suggestions for solving the crisis.

It is great to see serious effort being applied to this important issue. Hopefully, the work done for corporations will trickle down to benefit the individual who wants to retain their life bits.

Comments

[Steve Ianta]

Indeed, long term archiving is essential in enabling killer applications for the Total Recall revolution. I've just read your book, and my belief, as a life logger myself for 6 years, is that with reliable long term archiving services in the cloud one will have good chances, or at least his/her lifeBits, to see all the technological promises being fulfilled to enable a fruitful digital life.

I still find current technologies expensive and unrewarding as requiring above average technical skills to maintain a life log. For the average consumer, I'd assume that in a decade or two a well established semantic web infrastructure will make things much easier in structuring and maintaining a life log. On the other hand I think that today the approach to sustain such a business model should target, families, churches and communities, which should have more resources comparing to single individuals. Churches, especially, are the most successful long term archivers, with a proven record of millennial preservation of life logging although obviously not in a digital format.

With appropriate resources, I'd suggest trying lifelogging for one or several families, or a whole community or church. To my knowledge, Microsoft has a blogging and community server application which with a proper licensing might become an enabler application for a group of people determined to preserves the community heritage and ensure its survival in the future. Such an approach will not only help communities get stronger but will also help local economies especially in times of crises we experience now.

Can you facilitate for me to get a sensecam? I'll be very happy to experiment one of those...

Steve Ianta
http://esouls.info

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I think that it depends on which technology you are using currently because now a days the technology is become a more costly. I agree with that consumers are not afford these type of gadgets and they are not able to work properly.