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.
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.
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.