6th July 2011, 09:02 PM
Who should pay for my regional archive centres eh (I shall be patenting the idea so a small percentage will come to me ) How about a joint venture: the state, a cost incorporated into each development (museums are generally starting to ask for something to pay for deposition so this is effectively already happening now anyway), and universities, after all research could really benefit from having material in one place for one region. I liked the example of the NHS archive warehouses - that was exactly what I had in mind (there goes the patent).