{"id":67,"date":"2004-11-18T10:12:34","date_gmt":"2004-11-18T14:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/?p=67"},"modified":"2004-11-18T10:12:34","modified_gmt":"2004-11-18T14:12:34","slug":"the-myth-of-doomed-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/the-myth-of-doomed-data\/","title":{"rendered":"The Myth of Doomed Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just ran across an interesting essay by Simson Garfinkel on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/articles\/03\/12\/wo_garfinkel120303.asp?p=0\">&#8220;The Myth of Doomed Data.&#8221;<\/a> It&#8217;s not the whole story, of course, but it is a powerful rejoinder to those who insist that the digital future will simply erase the digital past, over and over.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a taste:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some argue that it&#8217;s impossible to look into the future and determine which of today&#8217;s formats will survive and which will go the way of the VP 415. Poppycock! As a society we have a very good understanding of what will make one file format endure while another one is likely to perish. The key to survival is openness and documentation. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just ran across an interesting essay by Simson Garfinkel on &#8220;The Myth of Doomed Data.&#8221; It&#8217;s not the whole story, of course, but it is a powerful rejoinder to those who insist that the digital future will simply erase &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/the-myth-of-doomed-data\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4bHwM-15","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}