[Year 12 IT Apps] Paper Wins!

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Digital decay is an interesting topic. I heard that the National library uses the ODT format for text archives. It is an open standard and as this is documented, will have a longer shelf life than other commercial formats.

Regards Roland

On 3 May 2014, at 4:51 pm, Barnard, Laureen O <barnard.laureen.o at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:

> Last year I had some IT/ICT students tackle this dilemma in a small way. They were preparing something that represented "Technology in 2013" to go into the school time capsule. After a quick look back in history they quickly realise how difficult it was going to be to "preserve" their work for future generations and allow it to be accessible. Their solution was to save to DVD, CD, USB thumb drives  and, last but certainly not least, they create a PRINTED copy  or representation of all their work (on acid free paper which was then laminated ;)) LOL
> 
> On 2/05/14 2:43 PM, "ken price" <kenjprice at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Indeed - and paper has a better track record in terms of lasting hundreds of years and still being readable. My 8", 5.25" , 3.5" and Zip disks are still in safe storage but I doubt I could find a machine to read them now.  Though some may argue that reading books that are a few centuries old is not a simple process either. 
>> .
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>> Having said that, I found myself hand-gesturing over a print book the other day to make the text bigger, and flicking to turn a page.
>> 
>> I'm not sure if Spritz http://www.spritzinc.com/# has been mentioned here but that is VERY interesting as a way to read text. However as in the article Mark provided, it lacks almost all the visual cues that a printed page provides, and while you can read very fast you can also get very lost, especially where the reading becomes non-linear . For example, when you want to quickly check what an abbreviation stands for, you have to break the process.  It does feel like it has some purpose in life however -maybe some students can help identify what.
>> 
>> http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/reading-paper-screens/ has a bit more info on the screen vs paper comparison
>> 
>> Ken 
>> TASITE tasite.tas.edu.au
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>> On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Mark <mark at vceit.com> wrote:
>>> http://www.wired.com/2014/05/reading-on-screen-versus-paper/
>>> 
>>> At last - an erudite and magnificent article that agrees with me.
>>> 
>>> "Paper books were supposed to be dead by now. For years, information theorists, marketers, and early adopters have told us their demise was imminent. ... Yet in a world of screen ubiquity, many people still prefer to do their serious reading on paper."
>>> 
>>> Even kids prefer paper text books, apparently! The paper medium removes online distractions and tangential links to focus on deep reading and focused learning.
>>> 
>>> Good old paper.  
>>> 
>>> +1 for the good old Egyptians. Now, I begin my mission to restore the good old shaduf...
>>> 
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>>> Mark Kelly
>>> mark AT vceit DOT com
>>> http://vceit.com
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>>> Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease - Bill Maher 
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