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Copyright, findability and other ideas from #ndf

By Julie Starr | Published: November 25, 2009
I was at the National Digital Forum conference in Wellington earlier this week mingling with people involved in digitising and curating New Zealand’s cultural heritage material – people from museums, galleries, archives, libraries. I was struck by a few commonalities between the cultural heritage sector (known as GLAM – Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) and the [...]
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How NPR tweets topical archive material

By Julie Starr | Published: May 11, 2009
Via @richard_grant comes this interesting piece about NPR using automated tweets to link readers to archived stories about names and events currently in the news.
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Times Online to charge for archive access

By Julie Starr | Published: September 18, 2008
It's a question newspaper sites eventually face: do we or don't we charge for access to our archives? Assuming, of course, that they have a searchable archive. Times Online, the website of the Times newspaper in the UK, launched its archive in June on a free trial basis and has just announced it is putting much of it behind a paywall, according to the Guardian: An email to users described the first three months of the archive as the "free introductory period" and explained that although featured articles on the archive homepage would remain free, access will be charged at £4.95 for one day, £14.95 for one month and £74.95 for one year.
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