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Re: Electronic Archive



With apologies to Daniel--Word documents are a problem. Word 5 (DOS) files can't even be opened in Word 97 and later, let alone printed, unless there's a work around I'm unaware of. To migrate them, you have to either open them in Word 5 and save as RTF or in Word 6 (which will read Word 5) and save as a Word for Windows document. So, we can't just document the changes in software, we have to keep copies on hand and know how to use them--assuming we're willing to spend the time necessary to 'reformat' (either printing or upgrading) the documents file by file.

Deborah Wythe

Brooklyn Museum of Art Archives
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11238
tel: 718 638 5000 x311
fax: 718 638 3731
email: deborahwythe@hotmail.com

----Original Message Follows----
From: Daniel Sokolow
Reply-To: DSokolow@NSHS.EDU
To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
Subject: Re: Electronic Archive
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 08:45:12 -0500

Your scenario inhabits my archival nightmares, and is an inevitable future,
though I still think we're more likely to get mixed collections - some
paper, some electronic.

My main thought is document, document, document. Assuming one can actually
manage the data from one format to another (and there's an alternative to
migration called emulation, which is worthy of longer discussion), it's
entirely incumbent on archives staff to document each and every change, each
check of the data, etc. Word docs to me are no big deal; at the very least,
print them out & even if certain features don't work (hyperlinks, etc.) at
least the basic data will be there. On the rest of the types of docs, one
has to do one's best.

If everything is chronicled (i.e. "1/18/2025 - migrated to Word 753.1.2")
you've done your best.

Oh, and yes, you have to resubscribe. Send an email unsubscribing from the
old address, then a message subscribing from the new address. I don't
believe there's an automatic way to do it, but you can check with Bob
Schmidt, the list manager about that.

DS

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Daniel Sokolow, Archives Coordinator
David Taylor Archives
North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System
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Great Neck, NY 11021
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