Sage Ross wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Kat Walsh<k...@mindspillage.org> wrote: > >> The Executive Director for Digital Policy of the J. Paul Getty Trust >> has written an article on digitally-reproducible works of public >> domain art, and museums' mission, arguing why and how museums should >> properly make these works as unrestrictedly available as possible -- >> thought people here would find it a worthwhile read: >> >> http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november05/hamma/11hamma.html >> > Along similar lines, this is worth reading: > "Archives or Assets?" > http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/bitstream/1813/52/3/Archives%20or%20assets.html > > It's the 2003 address to to the Society of American Archivists from > the society's president Peter B. Hirtle, in which he argues along the > same lines for archival holdings. > Indeed, this issue for Wikisource is a parallel to that of public domain art for Wikimedia Commons. Properly speaking, I would not consider something an archive if it is not accessible. For collections that are not available for study, the more correct term would be "vault".
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