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Robert Pearlman
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posted 04-21-2004 12:03 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The outcome of this could be very good news for space history buffs...

NASA wants to make the historic imagery captured by the agency's exploration activities accessible to the public. NASA has requested proposals to digitize and consolidate agency analog, still, film, video and graphic imagery for easier public online research and retrieval.

A comprehensive database of historical, educational and commercially viable material will be developed by a partnership between NASA and an organization or group. NASA has more than 115,000 film and video titles and millions of still images documenting the history of America's space program.

NASA will review proposals from organizations sharing the agency's mission, values and goals that could provide entrepreneurial opportunities, in a nonreimbursable relationship, to provide public access to these vast imagery archives.

Through partnerships with the private sector, NASA hopes to continue to inspire the next generation of explorers, while sharing the tremendous archives of imagery gathered during America's exploration of space.

For information about this request for proposals on the Internet, visit:
http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eps/bizops.cgi?gr=D&pin=04#109967

or
http://www1.eps.gov/spg/NASA/HQ/OPHQDC/06%2D04%2D2004%2DHBD/listing.html

nasamad
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posted 04-21-2004 02:35 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for nasamad   Click Here to Email nasamad     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

I thought NASA did this a year or two ago with another company ?

Let's hope for more of that good ol' hi-res stuff coming into our computers !

Adam

Robert Pearlman
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posted 04-21-2004 02:37 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
What I believe you are referring to Adam, was the NASA/Dreamtime partnership. Dreamtime was a dotcom start-up that failed to ever start-up. There were many questions about why Dreamtime was selected when established entities such as National Geographic and even SPACE.com had put forth competing proposals.

nasamad
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posted 04-21-2004 02:54 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for nasamad   Click Here to Email nasamad     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

Thats the one Robert, I was just looking around to try to find out what they were called.
I remember seeing their logo on a few NASA pages but can't say I ever noticed them disapear ! Can't say I even noticed any improvement in the A/V archives that were attributable to them either !

I hope SPACE.com go for it again and get it, as long as they make the navigation better than their own pages !

Adam

Robert Pearlman
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posted 04-21-2004 03:01 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Personally, I wouldn't mind if an iTunes Music Store-like approach was adopted so that 72dpi previews of every photograph in NASA's achieve was available for free and high resolution versions could be purchased for a few cents each. Let the hosting company make money (or at least break even) as long as the database is easily and quickly searchable and file quality was high.

nasamad
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posted 04-21-2004 04:06 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for nasamad   Click Here to Email nasamad     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

Yeah that would be a good way to do it, I wouldn't mind paying a few cents for each hi-res image I needed.

Imagine that, every NASA image at 300 dpi !

Adam

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