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Re: [ARSCLIST] let's clear the air-preservation
On 01/06/07, Karl Miller wrote:
> Don Cox <doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: ***The EMI archives are one of
> the treasures of civilisation, like the Louvre or the Hermitage.
>
> ***The question is whether the care of such archives should depend
> only on a commercial company with limited resources. It seems to me
> that governments, or perhaps UNESCO, should be supporting the
> preservation of such archives and the availability of the recordings.
>
> Agreed, yet how do we convince them that they should? How does one
> create a National/International awareness of the problem? The major
> granting agencies in the US, NEH, The National Archives and Records
> Administration, etc. are able to offer only token support in
> proportion to what is needed.
>
> I often think that there needs to be an international information
> preservation initiative. But then, how does one sell the idea?
Find an ambitious politician who is looking for a campaign to build his
(or her) reputation on.
Get a good PR company.
Regards
--
Don Cox
doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx