As the petition response mentioned, the national archives do have a
wikipedian in residence currently - dominic mcdevitt-parks (User:Dominic.)
David Ferriero has also attended at least one Wikimedia related event
himself - he spoke at the public policy initiative wrapup in boston this
summer.
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Kevin Gorman
User:kgorman-ucb
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:29 PM, <wheredevelsdare(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
FYI - since we are looking to start GLAM in India, I
thought this would
make an interesting read. Answer to a petition for digitalising all Public
Records in the US by a Wikimedian.
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*Subject:* *Petition Response: Digitizing Federal Public Records*
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Digitizing Federal Public Records *By David Ferriero, the Archivist of
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Thank you for signing a petition asking the Obama Administration to
digitize all public records.
The Obama Administration believes increasing access to our collections by
digitizing our records is a great idea. Our most recent efforts to do this
ourselves as part of our
OpenGov<http://links.whitehouse.gov/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbW…w.archives.gov/open/>initiative,
include the Citizen
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a Wikipedian
in
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Tag it
Tuesdays<http://links.whitehouse.gov/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmb…/online-public-access/?cat=260>,
and
Scanathons<http://links.whitehouse.gov/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTE…v/online-public-access/?p=5819>.
We are also moving forward on implementing the President’s recent Memorandum
on Managing Government
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which focuses on the need to update policies and practices for the digital
age.
But all those things aren’t enough. Your petition, and the Yes We Scan
effort broadly, calls for a national strategy, and even a Federal Scanning
Commission, to figure out what it would take to digitize the holdings of
many federal entities, from the Library of Congress to the Government
Printing Office to the Smithsonian Institution.
These ideas bring up a host of questions that still need to be answered:
What should the National Archives’ priorities be? Do we focus on preserving
deteriorating paper records, still bound with red ribbons from two
centuries ago? Do we make digital copies of Vietnam Era film footage?
Should we focus on preserving those older paper records while citizens
volunteer to digitize more recent, and better preserved, records?
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looking for your input to help answer these important questions on how we
move forward. What are your thoughts on how the National Archives and other
agencies should proceed? What questions should we be asking ourselves?
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and I’m looking forward to having a longer discussion with the creators and
signers of this petition on this important issue in the coming weeks– more
details on that will follow.
Thank you again for your interest in this important issue. I’m looking
forward to your ideas on how we can proceed with digitizing federal public
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