I agree, but making sure these digital copies are well preserved would probably cost more than keeping the originals.
Comment on Ministry of Justice plan to destroy historical wills is ‘insane’, say experts
thehatfox@lemmy.world 11 months agoMuch of that loss is because there little or no effort to preserve it in first place. There is nothing inherently more fragile about digital data over physical, if anything it’s more robust. Digitiser data is perfectly reproducible, there can only ever be one “original” physical document.
But it does require making a proper effort at archiving it. If digital data is effectively duplicated, stored in properly documented formats and regularly maintained for integrity it can theoretically last forever. Gradual degradation and natural and manmade disasters will eventually consume all physical media.
That is still not an argument to *deliberately destroy” physical documents however. There are plenty of good reasons to try to keep them as long as possible, and continue to learn from them, even if their existence will still be finite.
angrymouse@lemmy.world 11 months ago
shalafi@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s asking for a lot more than putting a piece of paper in a box.
We get each other, but let’s account for the cost of digital storage.