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Volume 5 Issue 2 - March / April 2000
Welcome to a new issue of the AMS Adviser.
AMS at IIM 2000
Conference and Exhibition
Article: Archives at Risk in the Digital Age -
Part II.
Canon MS 800 A3 Digital
Reader Printer
Plus we have all the usual bits AMS
Services, Funny bit???
AMS
AMS at the IIM 2000 Conference & Exhibition
AMS in conjunction with Canon Australia and
SCSI Corporation will be at this Years Institute for Information Management (IIM)
Conference and Exhibition.
This years theme for IIM 2000 is Global Information in the 21st
Century.
14th – 17th May 2000
Melbourne Convention Centre
Bellarine Hall
Cnr Spencer & Flinders Streets
Melbourne Vic 3000
Stands 5 & 6
Should you be attending the conference, feel free to walk past and say
hello.
If you are not attending the conference then just let us know that you
want to come and we will make an appointment for you.
We will have the first showing of the MS 800 A3 Digital Reader Printer
and DR-4080U A3 flatbed scanner. Also on display will be:
Canon DR-3020 A4 Duplex Scanner
Canon DR-5080C A3 Duplex Colour Scanner
Canon DR-4080U A3 Flatbed Scanner
CD Caching Tower & CD Jukebox
CanoBureau Software
Alchemy Software
AMS Software
Finereader OCR Software
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Archives
at Risk in the Digital Age Part II
In the final part of this article, more questions are asked on the
stability and future of electronic storage.
Christopher Densmore, an archivist from the State University of New
York at Buffalo, who is part of the Inter Pares Network said that there was another
important reason why the late 20th century could become the worst-documented
period in history.
"Digital information is extremely fragile," he said.
"Little is known about the stability even of old technologies such as magnetic tape
which lasts only about 10 years.
Much less is known about the generations of disks and CD’s. Right
now the average book published on acid free paper by university presses and stored in a
library is expected to remain useable for 500 years. That’s the standard for paper
documents, photographs and microfilm. So material stored in those formats will be
available in the year 2500.
Contrast that with the stuff of floppies, which, with great care might
last until 2030 and without care only 10 years or until 2010. Optical disks might survive
intact until 2060 – no one really knows for sure."
A further problem with the digital age is that it is easier to alter
information without a record being kept. Paper held files at the Public Record Office, for
instance often include hand written notes in the margins of all the memos and letters that
lead up to a policy document.
In the computer age, e-mail messages are rarely stored for archival use
and a document in electronic form can be repeatedly changed without the original version
being kept. "The archivist may not know who received copies and was therefore in on a
decision, "Dr Densmore said, "The original item also may have been edited
electronically."
Professor Duranti said the Inter Pares project was crucial to future
historians. "These issues affect every society every discipline and every practical
and intellectual endeavour and common solutions are necessary to reduce barriers to
research study and every sort of communication" she said.
Should you require an article in full, please feel free to contact us.
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Canon MS 800 A3 Digital Reader Printer
Click here to go to the information page on the MS
800
Click here to go to the information page on the
MS 400/500
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AMS Services.
For the complete run down on what AMS can do for you, click on the following
link.
AMS Services
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Funny bit???
A man
is flying in a hot air balloon and realises he is lost. He reduces height and spots a man
down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts:
"Excuse me, can you tell me where I am?"
The man below says: "Yes, you're in a hot air balloon, hovering 30
feet above this field."
"You must work in Information Technology" says the
balloonist.
"I do!" replies the man. "How did you know?"
"Well" says the balloonist, "Everything you have told me
is technically correct, but it's of no use to anyone."
The man below says "You must work in Management."
"I do," replies the balloonist, "but how did you
know?"
"Well", says the man, "you don't know where you are, or
where you're going, but you expect me to be able to help. You're in the same position you
were before we met, but now it's my fault."
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Next Month
In the next few issues we will have some new articles which will include the following:
- Canon DR-4080U
- AMSView the new version
- Articles and other topics of interest.
Plus all the usual bits & pieces.
Should you want a topic covered or need an article in full, please feel free to
contact AMS.
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