25th November 2013, 03:58 PM
kevin wooldridge Wrote:I think one of the aspects is that it has to be an online depository AND it has to make it freely accessible. I am not handing over papers just data and I am not asking for any curation, merely that it is hosted by someone. Its justifiation being that it is the personal archive of a field archaeologist 1980-2050 or whatever. I am pretty certain that HERs are not interested in taking on data under such conditions (and why would they), museums (maybe but only if they can host the web-site), likewise libraries and archives....
All of these places hold material free of charge (at least they do where I am), they probably all even curate it for free. Why should anyone do anything with someone's 'personal' archive, why do you even have such an archive? Why is not already in some suitable place? Why should some organisation stump up the cash to create an online repository for 'your' archive? Why don't you pay for this to happen if it is 'your' material?
There's always ADS - it is one of the problems with purely digital data, it becomes outdated. Can it be printed out and stored on paper? Presumably not.