[d@DCC] A detail of the Domesday Book story

From: Matthew Skala <mskala _-at-_ ansuz.sooke.bc.ca>
To: discuss (at) digital-copyright.ca
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 15:18:10 -0400 (EDT)

I wanted to cite the example of the Domesday Book in my submission, and I
discovered something I hadn't known and which others might benefit from
knowing: the work that became inaccessible due to technological changes
was *not* a digital copy created to preserve the Domesday Book from 1086,
as I had thought.  What was lost, and later recovered via emulation
heroics, was an original work intended to be a historical resource about
the 1980s, a sort of time capsule in the spirit of the original Domesday
Book rather than a preservation copy.  This article has some details:

   http://www.news.scotsman.com/archive.cfm?id=1340622002

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