---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John at Darkstar vacuum@jeb.no Date: Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 10:27 PM Subject: [Foundation-l] Old newspapers going to destruction To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
In Norway a university has a large collection of newspapers, the collection is claimed to cover around 3000 running meters in the store house - without the norwegian and nordic newspapers, whats left is international newspapers from the last 150 years. If no one is coming up with a solution the collection is going to be destructed (actually burned)
I think the best thing to do is to scan them and make them publicly available. Of course neither I or WM Norway can set forth to do such a task, but if there should be some wealthy person out there that might be able to involve himself in such a task, I think it would be a very worthy gift to the mankind (where is the women!) to do such a thing.
When I heard of this I was shocked. Most of us are. I've infact studied with the university that attempted tu burn the newspapers. The plans have been stalled for now, but some permanent solution has to be found.
John
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Have they tried contacting Google? Google News is now archiving actual newspapers for real-time browsing when you do an archive search on Google News. This seems like it'd be right up their alley.
Zhaladshar
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 7:50 AM, John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John at Darkstar vacuum@jeb.no Date: Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 10:27 PM Subject: [Foundation-l] Old newspapers going to destruction To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
In Norway a university has a large collection of newspapers, the collection is claimed to cover around 3000 running meters in the store house - without the norwegian and nordic newspapers, whats left is international newspapers from the last 150 years. If no one is coming up with a solution the collection is going to be destructed (actually burned)
I think the best thing to do is to scan them and make them publicly available. Of course neither I or WM Norway can set forth to do such a task, but if there should be some wealthy person out there that might be able to involve himself in such a task, I think it would be a very worthy gift to the mankind (where is the women!) to do such a thing.
When I heard of this I was shocked. Most of us are. I've infact studied with the university that attempted tu burn the newspapers. The plans have been stalled for now, but some permanent solution has to be found.
John
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On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Ryan Dabler zhaladshar@gmail.com wrote:
Have they tried contacting Google? Google News is now archiving actual newspapers for real-time browsing when you do an archive search on Google News. This seems like it'd be right up their alley.
We dont know who has or hasnt been contacted. You can read more on foundation-l, butit is mostly just suggestions like contacting Google, IA, PG, DP, etc:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2008-September/046053.html
And a few of us are collating facts and figures into a Wikinews story:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Libricide_plans_on_ice_at_University_of_Oslo
-- John
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