The Internet Archive, www.archive.org, is a free online repository for a variety of electronic media, including text, images, audio and video. On the Archive, media of any file size can be stored and made available indefinitely, for free. Due to the long term nature of this storage, use of open file formats is encouraged over proprietary formats.
Using the Internet Archive, sound Biblical materials can be stored for distribution to the world on as permanent a basis as is available for electronic media, all at no cost. Costs of operating and maintaining the Archive are, much like a traditional public library, borne by donors and supporters of the library and not directly by publishers and consumers of information.
Creative Commons is a non-profit organization that provides a standardized system of documentation as an alternative to copyright. Authors can choose to permit specific terms of use for their material, from unrestricted public domain to restricted rights to alter or republish. The Archive requires author rights to be documented.
quick reference for archive.org publishing
access to archive.org: follow link to "join us" or "login"
enter your email address, password, and screen name. email address is used, with your password, to login to the archive. screen name may be displayed on pages presenting your contributions.
post media to the archive via the contribute page:
Link at top of page = "Contributions" - http://www.archive.org/contribute.php
ccPublisher from Creative Commons automates the contribution process, FTP contribute process may be more complex.
archive.org stores contributions in collections of material related in some way.
collections open to public contribution include:
opensource_media using Creative Commons publisher - http://creativecommons.org/tools/ccpublisher
metadata = "information about" - metadata includes such things as description, notes, keywords, and descriptive information such as the answers to who, what, where, when, why and how.
information provided by responsible contributors who support their material with good documentation or metadata, including identity of author and of publisher, is usually more credible.
contributions to the archive should consist of the following:
1 (one) piece of media (movie, audio recording, document or set of related documents, image or set of related images)
1 (one) set of metadata that applies to the contribution. if a set of documents are sufficiently different so as to require unique metadata, they probably should be published separately.
alternate forms or file formats of the contributed piece of media. this may include text transcripts of audio media. sommetimes the archive will derive alterate versions such as streaming media if the original is an accessible format, clearly labeled in the metadata.
Galatians 6:11 Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand.