> Dear All,
> I wanted to show you about a project we are working on called ARKive.
>
> ARKive is an initiative of the Wildscreen Trust (here in Bristol, UK). It is
> aiming to create the worlds first digital library of endangered species and
> is generating a corresponding website for educational and scientific
> purposes. ARKive is funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund (a UK fund) whilst
> the technical side is being developed by Hewlett Packard. We are initially
> focusing on British species and have a species list that has been drawn up
> according to the English Nature Species Recovery Programme. We will shortly
> be starting on 500 worldwide species.
>
> Your best information point is to take a look at our website www.arkive.org.uk
>
> You may have images or sounds of endangered animals or plants that you feel
> we could include in the project? Images will be stored in the 'ark' at high
> resolution so that if your originals were lost or damaged your footage or
> sounds would still exist. On the web it would be watermarked, clearly
> labelled with the donor's details and at a sufficiently low resolution that
> it could not be reproduced commercially.
>
> Our main aim is to build a species profile for each wildlife species which
> includes moving images, sounds and stills along with some explanatory text.
> We ask many media donors for details of images or sounds for each species and
> we catalogue them in our species database. This process will normally yield
> far too much footage and sound for us to keep, we are only keeping up to ten
> minutes of moving images and up to two minutes of sound. From our database
> we will try and select a range of images and sounds that describe the species
> visually and aurally. The next stage of the process is to ask for a full
> copy of the selected sounds or images. ARKive will pay for your expenses in
> preparing these sounds such as copying costs and postage. These high quality
> sounds or images are then stored on our vast disk storage areas. The images
> and sounds are then prepared for presentation on the web or otherwise. In
> the unfortunate case of a species becoming extinct, ARKive can provide a
> centralised area for people to look at a species. From a commercial point of
> view your sounds will be acknowledged during playout on the web, but there
> will also be access to the data catalogue of libraries that hold material for
> a species. So for example if a company is looking for a sound of a large
> blue spotted bird, then they look up our database and find a list of people
> and libraries that hold moving images and sounds.
>
> I can today send you a copy of our information leaflet if you wish and soon a
> copy of our terms and conditions (at the moment I only have terms &
> conditions for moving images). You will see that we already have many
> commercial partners including the BBC, Nigel Tucker (another sound
> recordist). I do hope that we can persuade you to also become a media donor.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Derek P. Kilkenny-Blake
>
> ARKive Moving Image and Sound Editor
> The Wildscreen Trust
> Anchor Road, Bristol BS1 5TT, UK
> Direct line: +44 (0) 117 915 7109
> Mobile: +44 (0) 777 376 4415
> Fax: +44 (0) 117 915 7105
>
> The Wildscreen Trust manages the Wildscreen Festival of Moving Images from
> the Natural World and is developing ARKive, a digital library of images of
> the world's endangered species.
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