Hi Tish. The CCA would not have to give away the data.. The data provided by the CCA was actually obtained from FamilySearch in the first place, which in turn scanned the originals in the Horta, Angra and Ponta Delgada archives (which are a separate entity than the CCA, all of them dependent of the DRaC - the Regional Cultural Agency).
As to CCA as resource for tourism and revenue, I don't follow. The data could also stay where it is currently. You would just have two sources.. It's just that one of the sources has massive pockets for genealogy. And of course, they could serve you the high-resolution scan of the books, instead of the reduced-beyond-recognition images that some older books have in CCA. João Ventura http://tombo.pt/en * Well, not really always, but we're talking about genealogical timeframes, not geological ones. On Monday, 16 January 2017 18:26:05 UTC+1, sfig wrote: > > João, thank you for your input. You are so right. The down time for CCA > should not make CCA so discredited. They are doing a great service. We are > living in a society where everyone is so impatient. Does it really matter > if you are unable to look something up for a day, or two? I also agree, > Familysearch has the resources, but for the Azores to give away the data > would not only mean nobody would go to CCA, but would reduce CCA as a > resource for tourism and revenue. Why do you think the Portuguese are > offering citizenships with so little commitment to the people who apply > (revenue)? I am not writing this in criticism of Portugal, it's just the > climate of small governments around the world at this time. > > Tish > > On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 8:38 AM, João Ventura <jo...@venturas.org > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Victor, >> >> The "cloud" is not free... And while I do agree that on principle it >> would make sense, the truth is that the thing that's REALLY expensive on >> the cloud is storage. You can get Amazon Web Services to scale easily the >> number of servers, but telling that each of those servers would have to be >> able to store and replicate several Terabytes of data would probably >> consume the budget for the whole archipelago quite fast. >> >> And it doesn't make sense to have several servers all going to the same >> storage server wherever they store all those images. >> >> Things that would make sense: >> 1. Allowing Familysearch to serve those images (pros: free, and no work >> necessary; cons: nobody would use the CCA servers ever again). >> 2. See 1., to be honest. >> >> João Ventura >> https://tombo.pt/en >> >> On Saturday, 14 January 2017 19:10:58 UTC+1, Victor Soares wrote: >>> >>> They should load all that data up on the cloud to be fault tolerant. >>> Likely cheaper and less of a maintenance hassle for the CCA admins. >>> On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 09:42 Ângela Loura <angel...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Contacts: >>>> >>>> drac.i...@azores.gov.pt >>>> drac...@azores.gov.pt >>>> >>>> 2017-01-14 17:35 GMT+00:00 Richard Francis Pimentel < >>>> rickre...@gmail.com>: >>>> >>>>> *CCA seems to have gone down this morning around 10:00 am EST. As of >>>>> now it is still down.* >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> *Rick* >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>>> an email to azores+un...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores. >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to azores+un...@googlegroups.com. >>>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores. >>>> >>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Azores Genealogy" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to azores+un...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores. >> > > > > -- > sfig > Researching > Island: Santa Maria > Freguesia: Santa Barbara > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores.
