[-empyre-] Re: Preservation (Melinda)

[Tim Plaisted <tim@boxc.net>]

I think one of the answers is to take an interest in archiving and 
maintaining your own work. IT has a really developed sense of 
maintenance that we could learn from. documentation, processes etc. It 
is especially tricky if you work outside the popular realm of mass 
market software.. small tools and community software projects come and 
go.. at least with the open source ones, you can package the code with 
your project and rebuild it on some future system.. otherwise, there is 
always emulation. Win98,2000 etc emulators do exist now and they will 
be very useful in the future.

On 29/06/2004, at 12:00 PM, empyre-request@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au wrote:

> .. as an online artist ive seen the functionality of the work ive made 
> decay
> before my eyes!!  Aspects have stopped working..   in work from 1996