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Jack Burgess <jack@...>
I have about 3,800 historic photos of my prototype, the Yosemite Valley Railroad. There are actual photo prints of probably 25% of them. The rest are all high resolution scans.
Our Trust specifies that all of those photos (plus the scans of all of them) plus research documents, YV documents, etc. be donated to the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento. What if there is a house fire? There is a set of CDs of the photos in a fireproof safe. What if there is a massive earthquake and our entire town disappears? Other YV fans across the US (and in the Netherlands) have scans of every photo.
Just planning ahead…
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Jack
Turn them into a massive NFT (non-fungible token). Everybody's doing it ! And then sell it for millions ! :-) If it's in The Cloud, then it's safe. Or so we are led to believe. :-D Tim O'Connor On 9/5/2021 7:38 PM, Jack Burgess wrote:
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Robert G P
I like your thinking jack! On Mon, Sep 6, 2021 at 2:06 PM Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@...> wrote:
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I think wide sharing is really is the best guarantee of -digital- preservation, at least for a generation. After I'd scanned a few thousand slides, I shared a large number of them via Dropbox. As for thousands of physical slides, I'm not really sure what to do with them, or with my library of books. It would be a shame for them to end up in a dumpster. CD's and other electronic storage is NOT archival - They do degrade over time. Paper has proven to be the most durable form of preservation, if it's well cared for - and that would include prints. Negatives and slides (depending on film type) can last a long time, although we don't really know how long that is, since it has existed for just over 100 years. So much information now exists only in electronic form - and it requires non-stop money and electricity to preserve it. It worries me. :-\ And don't get me started on cryptocurrency. It's secure - until the electricity and components that keep it alive just -poof- disappear someday in the future. Just maintaining it already uses more electricity than dozens of countries use. It is NOT climate friendly. My entire digital train photos collection is 30 GB now - so I can fit it onto a USB thumb drive. I have shared (and people have shared with me) thumb drives of photos, so that's a good way to get duplicates out there in the 'cloud' of enthusiasts. Tim O'Connor On 9/7/2021 1:59 PM, Robert G P wrote:
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Dick Harley
I'd say if Jack has a digital photo collection that he intends to go to the CSRM Library, why not donate it NOW? Then the rest of the world can have access and use it. Or maybe see something that gets them interested in trains or even the YVRR. Hoarding this stuff in our closets is silly. And yes, sometimes it all gets thrown away by our heirs. I have put much of my drawing collection and personal photos on my SmugMug site. Still a lot more to go, but I do work on it. https://harley-trains.smugmug.com/ Cheers, Dick Harley Laguna Beach, CA |
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lsittler
So I know this is not on point but in the 1960s as a kid, I was given slide
lists from a company called 35 Slides located in Colorado. These lists featured
all kinds of color slides of Northeast railroads, including NYO&W, Unadilla
Valley, and PRR Elmira branch. I bought a bunch but got prints, not slides
unfortunately, because I didn’t have a projector. 35 Slides went out of
business, but later I learned that the photographer was David Conner. While I
have seen many of his photos since then, I have never seen the ones I bought or
the others listed by 35 Slides. Anyone know what happened to that company’s
slides? Les Sittler
From: Tim
O'Connor
Sent: Tuesday, September 7, 2021 2:57 PM
To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io
Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Wa Sunshine Kits... I think wide sharing is really is the best guarantee of -digital- preservation, at least for a generation. After I'd scanned a few thousand slides, I shared a large number of them via Dropbox. As for thousands of physical slides, I'm not really sure what to do with them, or with my library of books. It would be a shame for them to end up in a dumpster. CD's and other electronic storage is NOT archival - They do degrade over time. Paper has proven to be the most durable form of preservation, if it's well cared for - and that would include prints. Negatives and slides (depending on film type) can last a long time, although we don't really know how long that is, since it has existed for just over 100 years. So much information now exists only in electronic form - and it requires non-stop money and electricity to preserve it. It worries me. :-\ And don't get me started on cryptocurrency. It's secure - until the electricity and components that keep it alive just -poof- disappear someday in the future. Just maintaining it already uses more electricity than dozens of countries use. It is NOT climate friendly. My entire digital train photos collection is 30 GB now - so I can fit it onto a USB thumb drive. I have shared (and people have shared with me) thumb drives of photos, so that's a good way to get duplicates out there in the 'cloud' of enthusiasts. Tim O'Connor On 9/7/2021 1:59 PM, Robert G P wrote:
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