Europeans Bury 'Digital DNA' Inside Mountain Stronghold

[Swede]

In a secret bunker deep in the Swiss Alps, European researchers on Tuesday deposited a "digital genome" that will provide the blueprint for future generations to read data stored using defunct technology.

"Einstein's notebooks you can take down off the shelf and read them today. Roll forward 50 years and most of Stephen Hawking's notes will likely only be stored digitally and we might not be able to access them all," said the British Library's Adam Farquhar, one of two computer scientists and archivists entrusted with transferring the capsule.

The capsule is the culmination of the four-year "Planets" project, which draws on the expertise of 16 European libraries, archives and research institutions, to preserve the world's digital assets as hardware and software is superseded at a blistering pace.


http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2363904,00.asp

[aquart]

1. That's a thoughtful thing to do.

[snagglepuss]

2. Very wry. LOL nt

[snagglepuss]

3. I hope they included instructions in hard copy.