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RAIN 4/15: Weekend Update Part 2:Preservation, Corbis and Baker



USA Today 4/14/01
Ellis Island records go online
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/nb/nb3.htm

by Martin Stone
Newsbytes
The immigration records of more than 17 million Americans who entered the
country through Ellis Island, N.Y. will go online for the first time next
Tuesday, April 17.
According to a statement by Family Tree magazine, which is featuring the
event in its upcoming issue, until now, the immigration documents of those
who entered America through the "island of hope, island of tears" have been
accessible only on microfilm.



Washington Post 4/13/01
Making timely choices about storage media
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13434-2001Apr12.html

by Kevin Savetz
Special to The Washington Post
You brought a digital camera along on the family vacation and took a ton of
snapshots. Now how can you keep those pictures around for your kids to enjoy
in 20 years? In 50 years, will your grandchildren's computers be able to read
the data?
In a computing culture where five-year-old hardware is antique beyond belief,
it's easy to forget about the possibility that we might need to rely on
individual CDs or Zip disks decades into the future. But it's an issue that
computer users will have to face as more and more journals, letters, music
collections and photo albums exist solely as computer files.



Wall St Journal 4/13/01
FBI's reliance on the private sector has raised some privacy concerns
http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB987107477135398077.htm

by Glenn R. Simpson
WASHINGTON -- Big Brother isn't gone. He's just been outsourced.
After surveillance scandals in the 1960s and 1970s, the Federal Bureau of
Investigation and other federal law-enforcement authorities curbed their
file-keeping on U.S. citizens. But in the past several years, the FBI, the
Internal Revenue Service and other agencies have started buying troves of
personal data from the private sector.