Internet Archive: Text Archive:
"Our goal in digitizing these texts and putting them online is to provide easy access to a rich and fascinating core collection of archival texts.

By providing near-unrestricted access to these texts, we hope to encourage widespread use of texts in new contexts by people who might not have used them before."

There are an increasing number of open archive projects. Not sure what all this means or how it will evolve. I think the key question raised in the text from the excellent Internet archive here - is what kinds of new contexts might such texts be used? Secondly how can we link the original resource - in terms of a 'text' to those contexts in a way which brings added vale. This means improving how we track discussion - so that the discussion (and use) becomes an associated part of the text.