NASA and Internet Archive partners to archive images

NASA and Internet Archive partners to archive images

US Space Agency NASA has said in a statement that they are partnering with the nonprofit Internet Archive to archive their image database.

The two parties would be making available these historic images through a central, searchable Web location.

Internet Archive said that they are going to spend millions of dollars on this project which would require consolidation of images which are available in digital and analogue format.

Brewster Kahle, the archive’s founder and digital librarian had this to say on this ambitious project: “The big payoff on this will be getting the terrific materials that are basically in the space centers up and available on the Internet. They are still images, different forms of film and video tapes over the years. The idea is to get it all online.”

Kahle further said that the material available on NASA sites already is just the tip of the iceberg. The data currently available on the net is scattered among around 3,000 Web sites operated by NASA.