Since research within NARA is open to the world, I see no reason why the
organization would not accept comments from individuals who are not US
citizens or residents. Good ideas do not stop at borders.
As for the actual document, there is not a lot of meat to the plan. What I
find interesting and perhaps troublesome is that NARA will have private and
non-profit outfits do the digitizing and that material will be made
available by NARA to the public for free. However, each partner can retain
for its own use, the digitized data and offer "enhanced" services regarding
searching that data and for which it can charge a fee. So, if all NARA has
is blocks of unsearchable images, the free source will not be of much use
since you will have to paw through page after page for info. I imagine the
so-called enhanced services, will include additional indexing that the
partner has done to facilitate searches.
Dick Conoboy
"Life rewards absurdity at the expense of reason."
From: A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance:
Portrait of an Age by
William Manchester
[Moderator's note: We're straying off the list topic. I'd like to ask that further posts on this matter go directly to individuals, and that we stay on topic - Jewish Bukovina genealogy and history. Thank you, Moderator Bruce]
Received on 2007-09-18 13:00:13
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