- Do you think the need for file compression will always be needed, considering the advances in data storage, the speed of computers, and speed of the Internet?
Yes, there is no need for unnecessarily large files. Larger files also take longer to load.
- Data formats are constantly changing. What challenges does this present for historians? For a given document, movie, or audio file, what are all the component pieces that need to be preserved along with it?
This is a problem for historians who want to view a file format that has been lost in time. For a file, the format and computer processor must be persevered, or enough knowledge of the processor must be known to emulate it.
- There is concern about Microsoft’s de-facto “.doc” format. Do similar concerns exist for cloud services such as Cloud Data formats and Cloud APIs? What are some such APIs and what will the dangers be if those de-facto standards are adopted?
The dangers if this standard is adopted is that one company can change the format at any time, and it might not be backward compatible.
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