[Tig] Library of Congress facility in Virginia

[Rob Lingelbach]

On Mar 14, 2007, at 1:35 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:

> While it is a worthy goal to preserve and restore films so that  
> people may be able to enjoy and learn from them them years later,  
> most people do not have access to Library of Congress archives.  Is  
> there any plan to eventually make the archives available to the  
> general public (for a fee) via the Internet or by fee-based  
> production of high definition optical media?

Bob, if I'm not mistaken, in the case of the UCLA archives (which are  
the second-largest after the Library of Congress') there were or are  
various licensing arrangements possible, fees going directly into  
funding preservation, archiving and restoration.
UCLA is under state (regional) control, whereas the LoC is under  
national government
control, but I'd be surprised if there weren't similar licensing  
protocols.

Having the archives on the net (for a fee) would be awesome, and a  
Herculean task,
and might better be achieved with Internet2 ( http:// 
www.internet2.edu/ ) and some
kind of limited gatewaying into Internet1.

I too await a response from James on this question.
Rob
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