To address only this tiny part of your huge message (which I cannot
discuss but acknowledge deeply), I think "permanent" archives are
vastly different from a place online where people can listen to
others' recordings - audio listenable online is highly compressed and
only a shadow of full fidelity audio.
You'd have to check into such things as the Stanford archives for
real, archival quality storage of permanent genuine archival audio
material. A simple online collection is neither permanent nor
archival quality... I lurk on the Library of Congress archivists list
and true archiving are a huge and deep subject, so we might keep the
grandiosity of planning permanent audio archives in perspective. How
far into the future do you want to reach? Yahoo could disappear any
day from a corporate action. Not likely, maybe, but possible. What if
Google bought Yahoo and changed it the way Egroups was bought by the
ya-hoos?
That said, I'd LOVE to see a place where we can put our materials for
accessibility to others on a more than temporary basis!
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On May 4, 2007, at 7:18 AM, geopaul7 wrote:
> Along this interesting, continuing thread of creating various
> permanent archives that are
> teaching, learning or historical resources for the future,
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