Carl Malamud and Building a U.S. Government Video Archive With Volunteers
Carl Malamud (some have called him a rogue archivist) and a person we mention regularly on ResourceShelf, is mentioned today in a New York Times article about a program he developed to have volunteers digitize video and help build an archive of U.S. Government video available to anyone on the Internet.
Ms. Pruszko is a volunteer for the International Amateur Scanning League, an invention of the longtime public information advocate Carl Malamud. The league plans to upload the archives’ collection of 3,000 DVDs in what Mr. Malamud calls an “experiment in crowd-sourced digitization.”
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Mr. Malamud, who spends most of his time pushing for broader access to legal documents online [Law.gov], had already uploaded 1,300 videos from other government sources, like the Federal Aviation Administration and National Technical Information Service. But “the motherlode is the archives,” he said.
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David S. Ferriero, the archivist of the United States, said the archives were fully supportive of what the citizen group was doing.
“My goal is to make available electronically as much content as possible,” he said, adding that the FedFlix copies are sufficiently high-quality that the archives would not have to duplicate them once more.
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