Peeter Vissak wrote:
Uneducated guess - many more than were available from the previous turn of the century. We know we have many more cameras and photographers than in 1900. Many of the photos now being taken will be saved on CDs or DVDs or whatever supersedes those media. Of course, many will be printed also which becomes a different thing, I guess. I imagine institutions like the Smithsonian and the LOC are very much aware of the problems with digital images and have plans in place to archive those. The biggest problem may be one of identification. You know when you do an image search on Google you find many images that have been tagged with your search terms but really are not what you requested. That sort of thing may be a huge problem. Don |
