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Digitize/Eliminate Microfiche/Print/CD Data Handling

Why Is This Idea Important?: Hundreds of thousands (millions?) of square feet of federal agency warehouse space is funded on a continuing basis to store mass quantities of books, tapes, and CDs, which will, in all likelihood, never be sought in those formats by anyone, in the government or general public, ever again.

The National Technical Information Service and other agencies continue to maintain vast quantities of federal data and legacy documents in archaic, obsolete formats, including, most embarrassingly, 'microfiche'. These biodegradable sheets of acetate house millions of pages of books, reports, and scientific papers, containing information gathered at taxpayer expense. The microfiche sheets must be carefully maintained in specially controlled conditions, or they will chemically decay and the information content be irretrievably lost. Reallocate future storage and maintenance costs to digitizing this material, once and for all, and invest the recurring savings thereafter in future media transition planning.

Submitted by david.wenbert 2 years ago

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  1. merveilleux24 said:

    Yes, if it would save money, which it seems that it would.

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