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Hi all.
Recently a funeral has brought home that my mum's generation in the family are not going to be around for ever. There are a lot of old photos that are at risk of either getting too old to see as they deterioate or the people and places in them becoming unknown and not being able to link them to a name or town, etc.
What I'm looking for is a way to store them so that they are future proofed (or as future proof as possible). I'm going to scan them (best as *.tif format?) get the older generation to add exif data for each such as names, year, location etc then the storage.
With zip discs lasting about 10 years and cd/dvd drives dropping out of fashion what ideas do the learn'd members here think will be accessible in 40 years? Also secure from viruses and clumsy deletions. My idea is a USB hdd air gapped from the Web then as cousins etc want access they get a full copy for their branch of the family tree. My sisters idea is the cloud... Mine I think will be good for maybe 10 years then need updating. Cloud worries me for long term with being secure but accessable with companies folding or randomly going under.
Any suggestions or comments?
Ta
FluffySheep
Recently a funeral has brought home that my mum's generation in the family are not going to be around for ever. There are a lot of old photos that are at risk of either getting too old to see as they deterioate or the people and places in them becoming unknown and not being able to link them to a name or town, etc.
What I'm looking for is a way to store them so that they are future proofed (or as future proof as possible). I'm going to scan them (best as *.tif format?) get the older generation to add exif data for each such as names, year, location etc then the storage.
With zip discs lasting about 10 years and cd/dvd drives dropping out of fashion what ideas do the learn'd members here think will be accessible in 40 years? Also secure from viruses and clumsy deletions. My idea is a USB hdd air gapped from the Web then as cousins etc want access they get a full copy for their branch of the family tree. My sisters idea is the cloud... Mine I think will be good for maybe 10 years then need updating. Cloud worries me for long term with being secure but accessable with companies folding or randomly going under.
Any suggestions or comments?
Ta
FluffySheep