On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hoi, > The archive of Cologne was a state of the art archive in Germany. If > anything it was the kind of institution that people would donate collections > to because of its excellent reputation and practices. A similar story > happened to an archive in Theresienstadt if I remember well. Cologne > collapsed because of an accident with an underground that was dug, > Theresienstadt saw its collection disappear in flames. > > We are not an archive. But our best efforts help safeguard against the total > loss of an archive. We can be complementary to what our partners do. We > should not think so insular.
If they do not have proper archival practices (i.e. redundancy/tape backup), we should tell them about Internet Archive. It is insular to think we need to be the solution for problems we are not well prepared to solve. -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
