Re: Long-term archiving of electronic text documents

>>>>> "WJGO" == William J G Overington <wjgo_10009_at_btinternet.com> writes:

WJGO> I was thinking about the problems of the long-term archiving of
WJGO> electronic text documents and thought of an idea. I wonder if I
WJGO> may please mention the idea here in the hope of there being a
WJGO> discussion so that an assessment of whether the idea is worth
WJGO> developing can be made.

Forward error correction (FEC) is an important tool for long term
archiving, but I suspect it is better done at a string or document
level than at the character level.

I'd suggest looking at tools like http://parchive.sourceforge.net/
and a windows implementation thereof at http://www.quickpar.org.uk/
for a tool for FEC.

-JimC

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