Curious Minds Podcast

Curious Minds Podcast


A Domesday Failure: Digital Info Preservation

October 12, 2015

 
Curious Minds: A Podcast about Science, Technology and History
(About the show...)
In the 1980's, the British BBC invested millions of pounds on what should have been a technological marvel: a modern version of the famous medieval Domesday Book. Less then 15 years later, it's system was unusable. What can we learn from the Domesday failure?
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