Date   : Wed, 04 Dec 2002 22:54:39 -0000
From   : "Colin" <cwhill@...>
Subject: Re: DIGITAL DOMESDAY BOOK GETS NEW LIFE

Maybe it would be better to contact the copyright owners ourselves and ask
that, after the work is preserved in a media neutral form, they consider
releasing it for PC's. If the work has been preserved in this form, it
should be possible to reissue it in any format - I presume that the need to
find a neutral medium is that this could be done at any time in the future
so as to preserve the information for retrieval at a later date rather than
to just have the information stored but not be able to access it.
Just a thought - oh, and who does own the copyright?
Colin Hill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Isabel & Robert" <rschmidt@...>
To: <p.r.wheatley@...>; "Colin f" <colin@...>
Cc: "BBC Micro Mailing List" <bbc-micro@...>
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 9:58 PM
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] DIGITAL DOMESDAY BOOK GETS NEW LIFE


> > The whole thrust of our work is to move Domesday to a media neutral form
> in
> > which it can be preserved over time. I've never suggested putting it on
a
> > DVD. If you have a look at our web site, you'll find lots of info on
this.
> > The early publications by my colleague Dave Holdsworth are a good place
to
> start.
>
> We're just dreaming. :-) We know of the copyright issues, but it's hard to
> realize the neccessity of preserving something that won't be available to
> the general public anyway.  And we know preservation is Camilion's primary
> concern, not availability after preservation.  A downloadable DVD image
> would be a very attractive way for many of us to experience the fruits of
> your work.  Of course, quality would be degraded when compared to the 250
GB
> "master preserve", but, as Mr. Gilbert implies, that shouldn't lessen most
> people's experience of it.  An experience is better than no experience.
:-)
>
> Come to think of it, one might argue that a "lo-fi" DVD version could be
> exempt from the copyright, for that very reason (degraded data).
>
> Another idea would be to allow people to run Richard's pumped-up Domesday
> BeebEm on their local PCs, with all its requests for LD data routed to a
> http (or https) server controlled by Camilion.  The streamed video frames
> should adapt to the user's bandwidth, of course...  hmm... I'd better stop
> now.
>
> Ah well... maybe I'll come across it in a museum during one of my rare
> visits to the UK...
>
>
> Cheers,
> Robert
>
>
>