Archives: NARA Renews and Updates Digitization Partnership Agreement With Ancestry.com and Fold3
From the NARA Blog:
NARA (National Archives and Records Administration) has enjoyed a successful partnership with Ancestry since 2008. NARA has also partnered with Fold3, Ancestry’s sister site, since 2007. In the month of June alone, NARA records received 8.8 million views on Ancestry.com, and 2.5 million views on Fold3.com.
We are renewing our partnership agreement with Ancestry.com and Fold3.com, and welcome public feedback. Here are the major updates to the agreement:
- NARA effectively shortened the embargo period by 12-24 months by starting the embargo clock after scanning is completed rather than waiting for the partner to publish the collection. This incentivizes the partner to post quickly, rather than waiting for an entire project to be completed. It also allows NARA to monitor when the embargo period should start.
- In very rare circumstances, a Partner would digitize material and not post it online immediately, but would wait until the collection was completely finished. The updated agreement drives the Partners to post segments of large collections immediately rather than waiting for the entire collection to be completed.
- NARA will have the latitude to recover almost any cost associated with supporting Partners.
- The updated agreement provides NARA the right to not recover costs from Partners. NARA will spell out all cost recovery in the project plan
- Outlines NARA’s commitment to protecting PII and more specifically spells out the Partners’ responsibilities if PII is identified.
Review the Partnership Agreement (14 pages; PDF)
Read the Complete Blog Post
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