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> Are you willing to pay for it? I'd be happy for some of my tax money to go to a historical preservation project. Maybe it'd be feasible to get members of th
by ndsipa_pomu 3y ago
> Are you willing to pay for it?
I'd be happy for some of my tax money to go to a historical preservation project.
Maybe it'd be feasible to get members of the public to volunteer to do some of the digitisation - that should reduce costs, but I can imagine it would be difficult to keep track of where all the originals are and quality of the digitisation.
- ghaff 3y agoI have no idea how you'd crowdsource something like that outside of a local group of some sort who could come into an office and volunteer. The reality is that there's a near-infinite amount of stuff that could be digitized and someone needs to make a call about what's worthwhile. At some point you're just digitally hoarding and spending a lot of time/effort/money to do so.
- CaliforniaKarl 3y agoSome of your tax money—assuming you pay US federal taxes—is! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Film_Preservation_Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Film_Preservation_Fou...
- ndsipa_pomu 3y agoI'm in the UK, so I'm not contributing towards that. We've got the British Film Institute (https://www.bfi.org.uk/ https://www.bfi.org.uk/) but that's a charity and part funded by funds from the National Lottery (that I don't play as it seems to be a voluntary tax on the poor).