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Topic: NASA Seeks Partnership in Digital Imagery
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Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 42986 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 04-21-2004 12:03 PM
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 Member Posts: 2121 From: Essex, UK Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 04-21-2004 02:35 PM
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 Editor Posts: 42986 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 04-21-2004 02:37 PM
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 Member Posts: 2121 From: Essex, UK Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 04-21-2004 02:54 PM
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 Editor Posts: 42986 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 04-21-2004 03:01 PM
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 Member Posts: 2121 From: Essex, UK Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 04-21-2004 04:06 PM
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 |