Volunteers Duplicate Federal Videos for an Online Archive - NYTimes.com
Connotea Imports 2012-07-31
Summary:
"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 [US National Archives'] collection of 3,000 DVDs [for OA] in what Mr. Malamud calls an “experiment in crowd-sourced digitization.” ...David S. Ferriero, the archivist of the United States, said the archives were fully supportive of what the citizen group was doing....The scanning league is starting with the 3,000 or so DVDs in the collection, because they are the easiest to duplicate. But there is much more to be done: the archives are said to house more than 200,000 videos...."