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Information & Ethics committee  No, it's the same thing.

February 28th, 2011Committee meeting

Jean-Stéphen Piché

Information & Ethics committee  It will provide value-added metadata that it does itself based on the documents, but we will provide basic metadata on that information, as well as the digitized documents.

February 28th, 2011Committee meeting

Jean-Stéphen Piché

Information & Ethics committee  In fact, the information that was digitized by Ancestry.ca has a fee when it's with the Ancestry.ca website, but on our website it's free. The information will be released for free. We have already undertaken the digitization of several million documents that were done by Ancestry.ca; that information is available on our website for free, and also available for a fee on the Ancestry.ca site.

February 28th, 2011Committee meeting

Jean-Stéphen Piché

Information & Ethics committee  We have received very few complaints about this. There's an advantage from a public good perspective to have a third party partner that digitizes the asset for free, and then it's available on our websites for free as well. Ancestry.ca has other means of making money, because they agglomerate several data sets in other countries, etc.

February 28th, 2011Committee meeting

Jean-Stéphen Piché