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A RAW repository, The Internet Archive and OpenRAW

Posted by timothy on from the awesome dept.

Stan writes "I just read this in the OpenRAW mailing list, OpenRAW plans to create a RAW repository, a final resting place for RAW file documentations of current and already abandoned digital cameras. The RAW repository will be hosted in the Internet Archive, which describes themselves as a digital archive of the Internet and other cultural artifacts. And they have all reasons to support OpenRAW, they currently photograph billions of book pages with cameras and store them in RAW format. Unfortunately the camera makers think different (which is not always a good thing)."

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  1. How Open is the Repository? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This effort is being set up by a guy (Juergen Specht) who hosted a mailing list and then deleted it without notice when some of the posts offended him.

    See:
    http://www.vudeja.com/04/09/mailing-list

    http://www.esthet.org/blog/archives/001294.html

    http://www.wirefarm.com/archives/004186.html

    http://www.easterwood.org/hmmn/archives/001111.htm l

    http://openraw.org/about/

    Don't be surprised if this site just up and disappears one day, taking all of the data with it.

  2. Re:Digital == Loss of freedom by kimba · · Score: 4, Interesting

    With my camera I shoot in RAW. By some process in history, today the RAW format for my specific camera is open - available not only for use in commercial products like Adobe, but in GPL'd software that will convert it for me and for while I have the source.

    Unless someone arrests me and confiscates all my software, as well as removes all this purportedly legal software from the market, what is the risk of using this camera?