Looking at access portal rather than establishing a central repository. Who will host this, fund creation, development and maintenance?

In UK current trend is away from funding large central computer archives towards local archiving. This will create own problems - expertise, access. Institutions may be able to store data and provide backup but not the quality of expertise needed for good archiving. What to do where organisations unable to host own material or provide access at their site?

Minimum required is a standard set of metadata. Decisions on preferred formats, standards, etc. Data migration - how to cope with inevitable changes in these over time so that people can still use/view 'old' data.

Anthro data will cover a range of media: text, images, video, audio, vector, GIS plus specialist areas - what do ethnomusicologists use for notation for instance? Other 'active' types of media: simulations, VR.

Need access to resources without regard to location. DOI or similar. Fixed URLs no good - people move and take their material with them.

Archives involve elements of tedious work - dealing with formats, putting together metadata for items. This would be done locally but need funding to pay students, secretarial staff.

Selection - how much would portal model require? Less than a fixed repository as no great overhead in terms of space but there is an overhead in maintaining portal.

Security and privacy - markup method as used by Stephen Lyon. Tags define areas of text with different sensitivity. Users see less or more of text depending on permissions. Identity protection - likely to become even more important, not only re: political/persecution concerns but more mundane identity theft.