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by riffic 844 days ago
there's a wealth of data locked up in these old newspapers and it's kind of a shame it's only being valued by these genealogy corporations. They're not really the best stewards of the data.
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Archiving is really expensive and time consuming. Making it actually useful is more so.

Archiving some things like photos is also complicated from a rights perspective given it wasn't even on the radar when a lot of the content was originally used.