One company calling for the project to be outsourced, DAMsmart, is based in Canberra and its general manager Joe Kelly said his enterprise could digitise the magnetic tape material 40 times faster than the Archive. His business could digitise more than 100,000 hours of content trapped on obsolete magnetic tape formats each year. http://bit.ly/1jYgwix http://bit.ly/1jYgwix+ -- Peterk Dallas, Tx [log in to unmask] Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org "The problems of our economy have occurred not as an outgrowth of laissez-faire, unbridled competition. They have occurred under the guidance of federal agencies, and under the umbrella of federal regulations." Senator Ted Kennedy, in defending trucking deregulation in 1978. Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=archives-nra