NASA and Internet Archive of San Francisco are partnering
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scan, archive and manage the agency's vast collection of=20
photographs, historic film and video. The imagery will
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available through the Internet and free to the public,=20
historians, scholars, students and researchers.
Currently, NASA has more than 20 major imagery
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online. With this partnership, those collections will be
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available through a single, searchable
"one-stop-shop" archive of=20
NASA imagery....
NASA selected Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization, as
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partner for digitizing and distributing agency imagery
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competitive process. The two organizations are teaming
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non-exclusive Space Act agreement to help NASA consolidate
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digitize its imagery archives at no cost to the agency....
Under the terms of this five-year agreement, Internet
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will digitize, host and manage still, moving and=20
computer-generated imagery produced by NASA....
In addition, Internet Archive will work with NASA to create
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system through which new imagery will be captured,
catalogued and=20
included in the online archive automatically. To open this
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of knowledge to people worldwide, Internet Archive will
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free public access to the online imagery, including
downloads and=20
search tools....
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Carlos Narv=E1ez
http://www.juegopixel.com
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