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Wednesday, 16th December 2009

Carl Malamud Wants You to Have Access to U.S. Government Web Film/Video

Earlier today, Carl Malamud, who some call a "rogue" archivist and liberator (we call him inspiring) testified before Congress during a session named, "History Museum or Records Access Agency? Defining and Fulfilling the Mission of the National Archives and Records Administration."

He tells Boing Boing,

"Thanks to everybody for viewing the public domain videos I posted from the National Archives. NARA officials informed me that total revenue from the Amazon deal back to NARA over the last two years has been $3,273.66. I read their contract (link to pdf) and my back-of-the-envelope calculations say total DVD says can't be more than 11,000 units and are more likely well under 5,000 units.

In less than a week, we did 14,664 views on just 46 videos, and I'm pretty sure if we put all 1,899 videos on-line for a while, the number of views would go up by a couple of decimal places!

For those interested in the background on this as well as other NARA issues (like the $531 million computer system they're buying that the vendor has 15 patents on!!), I've posted my testimony on the subject.

Access Malamud's Prepared Testimony

Source: Boing Boing

See Also: Access Malamud's Public.Resource.org

See Also: FedFlix
Nearly 600 digitized videos from NTIS


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