[Foundation-l] Missed opportunity: NASA AND INTERNET ARCHIVE LAUNCH CENTRALIZED RESOURCE FOR IMAGES

Sat Jul 26 09:02:57 UTC 2008

On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Mathias Schindler
<mathias.schindler at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Waerth <waerth at asianet.co.th> wrote:
>> I just received this press release from NASA. Since NASA images are
>> mostly PD to my knowledhe we missed an opportunity here:
>
> Since the images are most likely PD, this is not a missed opportunity
> but an opportunity: Transfer everything with a clear license status to
> Commons.
>
> Mathias

We wouldnt know where to put them, and possibly couldnt even upload
some of the content with our 20MB upload limit.  IA, on the other
hand, will barely notice this additional stream of PD content.

--
John