I think I read (or heard) somewhere, that for archival purposes (like this,
or for data backup of any kind), it is better to use one of those WORM
devices -- ("write once, read mostly")
-- instead of "erasable" discs, which even though they may be "called"
CD-ROM discs, they are designed so that you can erase the data and re-use
them, and hence the data might be less likely to still be there for your
grandchildren.

Another idea:  maybe you could stick the data (even temporarily) on a web
server, and then "back it up" using
http://www.webcitation.org/
(See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webcite )
Just a suggestion (or 2).
-- 
Mike Schwartz
Glendale  AZ
schwartz@acm.org

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Mark Jarvis <m.jarvis@cox.net> wrote:

>
> Great info--Thanks!
>
> -mj-
>
> Matt Graham wrote:
>
> From: Mark Jarvis <m.jarvis@cox.net> <m.jarvis@cox.net>
>
>  I'd like to scan it in again but this time put the scanned pages
> on a CD or DVD. Does anyone know of a reputable shop that they
> would recommend for this? I could scan the pages myself, but
> would prefer to find a source for making pressed disks.
>
>
>  Any place that does scanning would be able to do this, but you'll
> pay quite a bit of $ for pressed disks.  Setup for that is really
> expensive, and you're probably only going to press 10 or so copies.
> I'd say it's totally not worth it.  An audio CD I burned 9.5 years
> ago has been living in my car for 9.5 years and still works fine,
> so storing a burned data CD in the dark and at room temp should
> work for double that.
>
>
>
>  If anyone can point me to where I can read up on preferred scan
> resolution, output format, general information, etc
>
>
>  Text:  300 DPI Group4 TIFF, black-n-white
> Black-n-white pictures:  300 DPI LZW TIFF, grayscale
> Color pictures:  300 DPI LZW TIFF, RGB
>
> ...200 8.5x11" pages in 300 DPI Group4 TIFF will fit in 100M.
> Modify for how these pages are set up; grayscale and color use up
> a lot more space because Group4 is insanely efficient.  TIFF is
> pretty future-proof and is lossless unless you do something silly
> like use JPEG-TIFF.
>
> (Yeah, I worked extensively with scanning and TIFFs at my old job.)
>
>
>
>
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