Interview date: March 3, 2010 Denver, Colorado Clifford Lynch Summary: Lynch says it wasn’t a sudden revelation, but that it became clear early on that the potential was there to really just completely blow open the doors of cultural heritage institutions and fundamentally change the equations about the way things were typically used. And it [...]

Interview date: February 8, 2010 Medford, Massachusetts and Centennial, Colorado Summary: From the start, the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae designed all the data with concern for preservation and sustainability. The first data discs didn’t look very good and Crane and his colleagues knew it shouldn’t be made into their archival medium. In the 1980’s, it took [...]

Interview Date: March 4, 2010 Denver, Colorado Summary: Initially, the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project (MESLP) set the standards for what images everyone would contribute (namely, the museums and the Library of Congress). The project looked at every Kodak on the market at the time, taking an image and compressing it. Using the lossless jpeg [...]