Former senior BBC executives including Roly Keating, the BBC's former head of archive content, have returned all or part of their pay-offs.
But the idea, says Benoît Pirenne, head of archive operations at Garching, is to find out what sort of research virtual observatories can be used for; to help astronomers to navigate around the various data formats; to provide heavyweight computer hardware; and to develop the necessary data-mining tools.
Simon Rooks, head of archive policy at BBC Archives, said the current whereabouts of the original AFRS disc was unknown.
A report in the newspaper Bild am Sonntag quoted Hans-Otto Kleinmann, the head of archives at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, as saying many of the missing files were in their possession.
"They have the furniture, we have the daguerreotype; they have the herbarium, we have the hair," said Michael Kelly, the head of archives and special collections at the Frost Library at Amherst and a member of the online archive's advisory board.
"These old films are disintegrating – careful maintenance is essential and any damage would be irreversible," said Luciano Sovena, head of the archive.
The Stasi kept four million files on citizens of the former German Democratic Republic, said Jochen Hecht, the head of the archive department of the strange government institution called the Federal Custodian for the Files of the State Security Service of the former German Democratic Republic.
"It was absolutely as night follows day that her upper-class Victorian female morality would clash head on with his traditional closed male army world," said Richard Aspin, head of the archive and manuscripts at the Wellcome Trust, which recently bought Sir John's letters.
analyst, who is an ardent Freudian He had planned to retire as head of the Archives and have Masson succeed him.
"The Charters of Freedom are the primary records of the nation, the underpinnings of our society," said John W. Carlin, archivist of the United States and head of the archives administration.
A14 Secret C.I.A. Deal Revealed The National Archives signed a secret agreement in 2001 with the Central Intelligence Agency permitting the spy agency to withdraw from public access records that it considered had been improperly declassified, the head of the archives disclosed.
