I can't find this 'openBMD' of which you speak, are you referring to freeBMD?
I share your concerns about this, it's all very well people volunteering their time to help transcribe records but it would make sense to me that they were transcribed in the 'open' to save someone having to do it all over again in the future. 'Dragon' Dave McKee wrote: >> Saw this, ... post office, communal data cleanup, couldn't help but think of >> mysociety and the postcodes >> discussion. Other than that, this is a bit offtopic as it's only historical >> data, but perhaps of interest anyway... >> > > Personally I have a bit of an issue with this. There's quite a > thriving geneological data transcribing community working on open > projects such as OpenBMD whereas Ancestry seem to be poaching people > from this to drive their own profits at the expense of these free > workers. > > Perhaps if there was a guarantee that in n decades the digitised data > would be available free of charge/at cost, I'd be happier (after all, > the documents are hundreds of years old, we can wait another > half-century...) > > Dave. > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
