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> The entire archive must be digitized – a major undertaking. Converting thousands of hours of analog recordings is slow, tedious work. For the moment, the univ

> The entire archive must be digitized – a major undertaking. Converting thousands of hours of analog recordings is slow, tedious work. For the moment, the university requires the person requesting materials to pay for the digitization of any tape that hasn’t already been converted. Canada spent a small fortune to digitize thousands of hours of analog Canadian TV shows, published them on YouTube, then… deleted the channel without advance notice before the videos could be publicly archived, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35716982 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35716982

bscphil 3y ago
Chasing through the links, it looks like someone did manage to upload a significant portion of the channel to archive.org: https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Encore%20%2B%22 https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Encore%20%2B%2...
- walterbell 3y ago
  Excellent, thanks for tracking those down! About 50% (1600 of 3000 items) of the original archive, uploaded Aug-Oct 2023. Now to figure out what's missing. At first glance, it's missing the world-best TV series about investment banking and stock trading by humans, Traders (1996), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traders_(TV_series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traders_(TV_series).
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the_af 3y ago
Wow. Why did they delete it after all that effort?
- walterbell 3y ago
  Unclear from public statements. If the content was licensed elsewhere, at least they could have told viewers where to pay to view it.
  - actionfromafar 3y ago
    It's sometimes not possible to pay anyone to see it, for many reasons, one being if the copyright ownership is unclear.
    - walterbell 3y ago
      In this particular case, digitization was done in concert with rights holders. With the help of many industry partners, the [Canada Media Fund] CMF team unearthed Canadian gems buried in analog catalogues. Once discovered, we worked to secure permissions and required rights and collaborate with third parties to digitize the works, including an invaluable partnership with Deluxe Canada that covered 40 per cent of the digitization costs. The new, high-quality digital masters were made available to the rights holders and released to the public on the Encore+ YouTube channel in English and French.
      - the_af 3y ago
        I googled and one result in Reddit claims they were announcing new uploads mere days before shutting the channel down, which is doubly puzzling. Someone else claimed the woman in charge of the project suddenly quit and there was no other recourse than shutting it down. I find this hard to believe...

bscphil 3y ago

Chasing through the links, it looks like someone did manage to upload a significant portion of the channel to archive.org: https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Encore%20%2B%22 https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Encore%20%2B%2...

walterbell 3y ago
Excellent, thanks for tracking those down! About 50% (1600 of 3000 items) of the original archive, uploaded Aug-Oct 2023. Now to figure out what's missing. At first glance, it's missing the world-best TV series about investment banking and stock trading by humans, Traders (1996), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traders_(TV_series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traders_(TV_series).

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the_af 3y ago

Wow. Why did they delete it after all that effort?

walterbell 3y ago
Unclear from public statements. If the content was licensed elsewhere, at least they could have told viewers where to pay to view it.
- actionfromafar 3y ago
  It's sometimes not possible to pay anyone to see it, for many reasons, one being if the copyright ownership is unclear.
  - walterbell 3y ago
    In this particular case, digitization was done in concert with rights holders. With the help of many industry partners, the [Canada Media Fund] CMF team unearthed Canadian gems buried in analog catalogues. Once discovered, we worked to secure permissions and required rights and collaborate with third parties to digitize the works, including an invaluable partnership with Deluxe Canada that covered 40 per cent of the digitization costs. The new, high-quality digital masters were made available to the rights holders and released to the public on the Encore+ YouTube channel in English and French.
    - the_af 3y ago
      I googled and one result in Reddit claims they were announcing new uploads mere days before shutting the channel down, which is doubly puzzling. Someone else claimed the woman in charge of the project suddenly quit and there was no other recourse than shutting it down. I find this hard to believe...