[Esip-preserve] Vint Cerf Column in new CACM

[Curt Tilmes]

On 03/28/2013 11:45 AM, Bruce Barkstrom wrote:
> Vint Cerf is President of the Association for Computing Machinery
> (ACM) and has a nice one-page column on digital preservation issues
> in the new Comm. ACM:
>
> Cerf, V., 2013: Open Access, CACM, Vol 56, No 4 (April, 2013), p. 5,
> DOI:10.1145/2436256.2436258

Interesting..

He talks about "bit rot" and the need to "maintain a system context in
which all of this material remains accessible and usable", which may
mean "software emulators of older hardware, older compilers, OS
copies", etc.

I can recall similar discussions we've had..

Curt