[LINK] Some scary stuff

[Dr. Bob Jansen]

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Found the following article on the Preservation Digest. I can think 
of no better organisation to care for and protect my personal 
documents and media than the big-Mi...oft. :-)

bobj

>MyLifeBits Project
>Microsoft Bay Area Research Centre Media Presence Group
><A 
>HREF="http://research.microsoft.com/barc/MediaPresence/MyLifeBits.asp">http://research.microsoft.com/barc/MediaPresence/MyLifeBits.asp</A>
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>The <A 
>HREF="http://research.microsoft.com/users/gbell/storeall.htm">MyLifeBits</A> 
>project aims to put all personal documents and media online,
>to allow time-shifting, and location independence when you are connected to
>MyLifeBits. <A 
>HREF="http://research.microsoft.com/users/gbell/">Gordon Bell</A> 
>has captured 10 gigabytes of articles, books, cards,
>CDs, letters, memos, papers, photos, pictures, presentations, home movies,
>videotaped lectures, and voice recordings and stored them digitally. One of
>the challenges of this project is to encourage people to take their personal
>memorabilia out of the shoebox and store them online. The technical challenge
>is ensuring that this information will be readable by future devices.We are
>building software to support MyLifeBits, beginning with a MyLifeBits Server
>that can support capture, storage, and management of personal media,
>including: TV with Web enchancement, radio, personal music collections, and
>home video.
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>New Scientist
>Software aims to put your life on a disk
>19:00 20 November 02
><A 
>HREF="http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993084">http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993084</A>
>
>"A really accurate, searchable store of events could also help us preserve
>our experiences more vividly for posterity. Doug de Groot, who works on
>computer-generated beings called avatars and other types of digital "life" at
>Leiden University in the Netherlands, says Bell's system could eventually
>form the basis for "meet the ancestor" style educational tools, where people
>will quiz their ancestors on what happened in their lifetimes.  "


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