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Genealogy archive project
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Lincoln Cushing
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Apr 04, 2009 11:18 PST
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PLG and ProgArch folks-
Interesting article in the SF Chronicle about a private genealogy
digitization effort,
Ancestry.com World Archives Project
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/03/
BUA016PJ8L.DTL&hw=julian+guthrie&sn=001&sc=1000>
To me it raises some questions about privatization of cultural data.
As the CEO says in the article, "Content is king," and the vacuum of
public resources for this sort of work has left opportunities for
private business. It's not all bad - their site states:
"As part of the Ancestry.com World Archives Project:
* All indexes will remain free to the public on Ancestry.com.
* Ancestry.com will donate copies of record indexes and images
from the project to partnering government archives and genealogy
societies.
* Images and indexes from the project will be available for free
to patrons at thousands of subscribing libraries across the U.S.
* Ancestry.com will provide free advertising to partnering
genealogy societies."
Check it out.
Lincoln Cushing
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