Category Archives: Data readability

e-pathology and data growth

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Ray

I was talking with another analyst the other day by the name of John Koller of Kai Consulting who specializes in the medical space and he was talking about the rise of electronic pathology (e-pathology).  I hadn’t heard about this … Continue reading →

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The problems with digital audio archives

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Ray

A recent article in Rolling Stone (File Not Found: The Record Industry’s Digital Storage Crisis) laments the fact that digital recordings can go out of service due to format changes, plugin changes, and/or files not being readable (file not found). … Continue reading →

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Today's data and the 1000 year archive

Posted on October 27, 2009 by Ray

Somewhere in my basement I have card boxes dating back to the 1970s and paper tape canisters dating back to the 1960s with basic, 360-assembly, COBOL, PL/1 programs on them. These could be reconstructed if needed, by reading the Hollerith … Continue reading →

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