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Rosetta Project stores 13,000 pages and 1,500 languages on 2.8" analog disk

Posted Nov 20th, 2009 at 1:50 PM and seen
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There’s little doubt that 100s of languages will disappear in the next hundred years. The loss of these languages is a loss of human history and cultural diversity. That’s where the Rosetta Project comes in. As part of the Long Now Foundation, the Rosetta Project plans to archive thousands of languages for millennia. A first step is the creation of a durable storage medium that can easily be deciphered in the future—just like the Rosetta Stone.

The prototype Rosetta Disk is a 2.8” (7.1cm) disk made of nickel. The disk is housed in a stainless steel container with an optical glass viewer. The disk itself contains over 13,000 pages that need a 1000X microscope to be read.

More about the future.

 Will Mayall

Comments (1)

Nov 21, 2009
Uber Linguist said...
It's a little ironic that the guy who's writing about preserving languages doesn't even know how to use his own. For future reference, an apostrophe is used for possession or as a contraction. "100's" is 100s and "thousand's" is always thousands.

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