{"id":11404,"date":"2008-08-26T20:12:26","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T03:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2008\/08\/26\/11404.html"},"modified":"2008-08-26T20:12:26","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T03:12:26","slug":"the-rosetta-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2008\/08\/26\/the-rosetta-project\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rosetta Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Amazingly cool: the Long Now Foundation's Rosetta Project has put together something called the <a href=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/kk\/2008\/08\/very-longterm-backup.php\">Rosetta disk<\/a>. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rosettaproject.org\/about-us\/disk\/concept\">Official page<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>It's three inches across, and it contains 15,000 pages of micro-etched human-readable linguistic information. The goal is to provide a Rosetta stone for the future. The disks are expected to last 2,000 to 10,000 years, and they're making a bunch of them and distributing them to various places to increase the chance that one of them will survive into the future.<\/p>\n<p>When I say \"human-readable,\" I mean \"readable to anyone who can optically magnify the pages by 500 times.\" This is not digital storage; all you need to do is magnify it (and know one of the 2,500 languages represented) to be able to use it. There's a super-cool design on the front with languages spiraling down toward the center, getting smaller and smaller, to make clear that the idea is to use a magnifier.<\/p>\n<p>And in addition to being an amazing idea, it's also <em>gorgeous<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>They're currently handcrafted, so a disk from the current prototype run would set you back $25,000. But I'm hoping that they'll make more of them that will be cheaper.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rosettaproject.org\/\">Rosetta Project<\/a> does other stuff, too. For example, they're \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rosettaproject.org\/about-us\/about-us\">working to build a publicly accessible digital library of human languages<\/a>.\" Sounds like a really worthwhile and interesting organization.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazingly cool: the Long Now Foundation&#8217;s Rosetta Project has put together something called the Rosetta disk. (Official page.) It&#8217;s three&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}