apologies if this has already been mentioned but the project team at the Digital Lives project at the British Library has been dealing with these issues for some time - and some simulator software development for dealing with hardware and software - i.e. dead digital formats - is in part driven by this kind of archive. http://www.bl.uk/digital-lives/ k Quoting Peter Timusk <ptimusk@sympatico.ca>:
On 8-Apr-09, at 1:07 PM, jcu wrote:
Has anyone heard of someone bequeathing their 'cloud' of personal info to a loved one/ family member? In the world of computer forensics, can a family member legally gain access to/take ownership of a deceased family members' mobile me accounts (the contents of it), for example?
Is anyone researching this aspect of e-writing
The question concerns me based on a news item some years back on archiving famous person's emails at some famous library in Britain and the incompatibility of older email software.
I also thought of this as a possible new business going into a dead
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