Frederick "FN" Noronha wrote:
Just some suggestions:
1. Government-funded software.
2. Archives.
3. All UN-related publications.
4. Photographs of archival value.
5. Textbooks.
6. Out-of-print books.
7. Documentary film and sharable footage.
8. Music created by non-corporate artistes.
9. Recordings of state-funded radio stations.
10 Newspapers' content (which are over 24 hours old, in case of dailies)
11 Local language computing solutions
12 Translations tools across languages.
13 Archives of content of all websites prior to 2005.
14 Government records and files over five years old.
There's a lot of useful material in all that, but with a task so
enormous we also need to respect the work of others. If another
organization is doing a good job at making some class of material freely
available we don't need to overwhelm them with our bigness. Remember
that bigness is what makes Microsoft and Google such big targets.
Ec