Rediscovery: 2 cases of archive failure and a possible solution
Channel: Max Bell
Date: 26/09/2018

Max Bell presents a 5 minute talk on 2 examples of archive failure where government archives are lost and then recovered at great difficulty. The first example was Egyptian hieroglyphics and the second was the Lunar Orbiter program. In both cases unanticipated cultural, political and technological change caused these valuable collections of valuable government funded data to become unusable for long periods. Recovery efforts can then be quite costly and uncertain and indicate the difficulty of long term information storage. A solution is then presented in the form of an opne global data archiving standard that is being adoptedThis talk was presented at the Texas Theatre in Dallas Texas in 2015.