Australian Creative Resources Archives – Proposal for the pilot phase:

The Australian Creative Resources Archives (ACRA) is a pilot project which will build into a nationally distributed, standardised, high-bandwidth digital archive that makes ‘waste’ materials from Australian cultural production processes available to researchers, the education sector more generally, and to commercial content developers. This waste material is often of very high quality and can therefore be of great value to many people and groups in the community, greatly accelerating the production and quality of Australian broadband content. Access to cultural ‘junk’ would, for example, be very valuable to film, television, and radio producers; musicians; historians; advertisers of all sorts; documentary producers; the IT industries in general—in fact, it will be a valuable resource for anybody wishing to study, understand, or capitalise upon Australia’s creative potential.