[Opengenalliance] Mormon church’s FamilySearch joins forces with Ancestry.com

[todd.d.robbins at gmail.com]

@Javier/@Ben,

I would assume (cross your fingers) the images and some sort of
transcription (as with other FamilySearch Indexing <
https://familysearch.org/volunteer/indexing> projects) will be available
free of charge through FamilySearch though the same collections will also
be available through Ancestry's subscription service.

As a reminder, I am Mormon and thus know a bit about the working of
FamilySearch and know some employees of the non-profit. Anyhow, I think
there is an opportunity to help the church and specifically FamilySearch
understand the benefits of openly licensing both their scans and the
associated metadata (both imagery-related and the transcriptions from the
indexing) for reuse and repurposing.




On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 6:06 AM, Javier Ruiz <javier at openrightsgroup.org>wrote:

> The deal seems to be that ancestry will scan the microfilms from FS. FS
> will then make these available for free. The challenge is to make them
> accessible for transcription ideally under an open license. Maybe too
> optimistic?
>
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> On Friday, 6 September 2013 at 10:52, Ben Laurie wrote:
>
>
>
>
> On 6 September 2013 09:28, Javier Ruiz <javier at openrightsgroup.org> wrote:
>
> It is not spelt out,  but it seems they will give free access via family
> search and integrate it in Ancestry.com?
>
> This is good,  now the next step is letting other people transcribe the
> digitised materials.
>
>
> Why is this good? Clearly it will leave all of these resources behind a
> paywall.
>
>
>  In the USA the scanned copies will be public domain,  but here they may
> need to license transcription.
>
> Todd,  I think this is a great chance. I will let others chip in.
>
> Nick Barratt had been in touch with the lds here for a while. Nick,  what
> do you think?
> On 6 Sep 2013 04:41, "todd.d.robbins at gmail.com" <todd.d.robbins at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Two of the world’s largest family history research organizations are
> joining forces in an effort they say will bring 1 billion historical
> records online.
>
> The LDS Church-operated FamilySearch International and the Utah-based
> company Ancestry.com announced a deal Thursday in which they will
> collaborate to bring online the church’s vast worldwide collections of
> family-history records.
>
> Ancestry.com CEO Tim Sullivan said while details need to be worked out,
> his company planned to pour more than $60 million into the effort over the
> next five years.
>
> *Source:
> http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/56830408-79/records-ancestry-com-online.html.csp
> *
>
>
> This is great news! Though I think we continue efforts to encourage the
> adoption of open licensing of this digitized content via our organization
> and others. I'd be willing to help coordinate a team to work with
> FamilySearch, Ancestry, OGA/ORG, OKFN, et al. Anyone, interested in joining
> me?
>
> Cheers!
>
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> Digital Asset Manager, MLIS
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