• To: 'Rick Marshall' <rjm@z...>, 'Michael Kay' <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Subject: RE: Ted Nelson's "XML is Evil"
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@i...>
• Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 08:00:25 -0500
• Cc: "'Hunsberger, Peter'" <Peter.Hunsberger@S...>, 'Jonathan Robie' <jonathan.robie@d...>, 'Eric van der Vlist' <vdv@d...>, "'xml-dev@l...'" <xml-dev@l...>

An archive is quite often 'a pile of stuff in the attic'.
Some records are purged from system (eg, names and name 
references) by court order.  They are put on media and 
the media is stored (locked in a cabinet) in case the 
court reverses that order at some future time.  Over 
time, the cabinet fills up, gets wheeled to a basement, 
or other storage area, and is forgotten.

S.O.P., Michael.  The real problem is restoring it 
complete with references.

As for time spans, as one who did have to take records 
stored in markup and repurpose them a decade later, it 
worked very well.  As for a hundred years, the problems 
of the medium survival are much worse than the notation. 
Computers did not make this better; they made it worse.

len


From: Rick Marshall [mailto:rjm@z...]

Michael Kay wrote:


>Of course there are many interesting challenges at the level of storage
>media. But I would dispute that your material is archived: an archive is
not
>the same as a pile of old stuff in the attic.

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