It was very cool for OP to do a writeup of the effort it took to convert a thesis.
I wanted to do the same with mine but I lost the sources (it was 20+ years ago and did not survive some upgrade/technology change). I was mostly concerned with the .eps files that are hardly portable to .png or similar.
This made me think a bit about preservation of ~recent data (1990-2010). a lot falls in the category of "not natively on the web yet" and "stored on stuff that does not work anymore".
I wanted to do the same with mine but I lost the sources (it was 20+ years ago and did not survive some upgrade/technology change). I was mostly concerned with the .eps files that are hardly portable to .png or similar.
This made me think a bit about preservation of ~recent data (1990-2010). a lot falls in the category of "not natively on the web yet" and "stored on stuff that does not work anymore".