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microfish

This project produces a poor person's microfiche: high-density archival prints made with laser printers and autoencoders that preserve both human readability and machine recoverability of the stored data, as an alternative as consumer digital archival media dies out.

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Consumer digital archival media seems to be dying.

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  1. microfish

    This project produces a poor person's microfiche: high-density archival prints made with laser printers and autoencoders that preserve both human readability and machine recoverability of the stored data, as an alternative as consumer digital archival media dies out.

    Problem: Consumer digital archival media seems to be dying.

    Posted by @publlus_enigma · Original comment ↗

    “Thirdly - microfish, poor person's microfiche using laser printers and autoencoders to preserve readability and machine recoverability of high density prints. Since consumer digital archival media seems to be dying...”