The poetry archive was opened in conjunction with the Great War Archive, a digitization project involving World War I material collected from the public.
Halliday admits they were lucky with their timing: "It was soon enough after Mao's death for there to be a lot of people alive who knew him, and we were also fortunate in a sense that communism collapsed in Russia, so the archive was opened there.
He was grateful for the end of World War II, at least partly because "the collection could be resumed!" In 1948 he became curator of the film department at Eastman House, and the following year the movie archive was opened to the public.
After the Wall came down, the archive was opened to anyone who wanted to see their files, an explicit attempt to "understand the mechanisms of dictatorship," as Dagmar Hovestädt, a Stasi Archive spokesperson, says in the film.
The Library of Alexandria was open only to the learned; the Internet Archive is open to everyone.
Importantly, Hubble's entire data archive is open to everyone, and Nasa hosts a huge archive of its images that are free to download and use.
The entire 40-year image archive is open and free.
When the archive is opened and put into print, she will, to a certainty, be revealed as one of the great comic correspondents of her time.
Containing more than 50 miles of shelves packed with an unknown number of papal documents spanning 12 centuries, including correspondence with Genghis Khan's grandson, Wolfgang Mozart and Adolf Hitler, the archive is opening up to the public for the first time on Wednesday with an exhibition showing off 100 documents at Rome's Capitoline Museum.
Meanwhile, the archives are open for business.
