OT: book to CD/DVD ?

[Stephen]

for an online/data solution i would suggest Dspace.org as the
technology as it is designed for long term data archives of media of
many formats. it might be allot like a sledgehammer but if you can get
a place online to run this thing for a fair amount of time you can use
it to great effect. although you might want to make sure you have
other uses ofr it to manage the cost.

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Mike Schwartz<mike.l.schwartz at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 at acm.org
>
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Mark Jarvis <m.jarvis at cox.net> wrote:
>>
>> Great info--Thanks!
>>
>> -mj-
>>
>> Matt Graham wrote:
>>
>> From: Mark Jarvis <m.jarvis at 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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