(With apologies to the ImageMuse members for the cross posting):
When we started looking into digitizing our exhibition catalogs, we
discovered that a large number of them had already been digitized as
part of the Google Books project and were up
on the Hathi Trust website. We released most of them under a Creative
Commons (CC-BY) license so that the full-text versions would be
available. Depending on which collection provided them to Google Books
to digitize, the illustrations may be of better of
lesser quality. All are in b/w, and the covers generally weren't
scanned. For art books, it's not ideal, but at least the texts are out
there. Following in LACMA's Reading Room project footsteps, we decided
not to try to clear all of the non-collections illustrations.
So far, no repercussions there, and a non-pain, minimal effort way to
get the stuff out there.
A more recent joint project with the Frick digitized a few hundred small
catalogs from the Gilded Age, Those will be sent to the Internet
Archive and will be on our website as well. As soon as I get around to
finishing the metadata and loading!
Deb
Deborah Wythe
Head, Digital Collections and Services
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11238
718 501 6311
deborahwythe at hotmail.com
To: musip at yahoogroups.com
From: spatre...@uchicago.edu
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 19:54:43 +0000
Subject: Museum IP Digitizing Exhibition Catalogs
Hi Everyone,
An idea of digitizing all of our exhibition catalogs has been thrown on the
table. Has anyone done this before? What were the copyright/logistical
challenges? The ideal would be to put the
catalogs online eventually. Any advice or suggestions would be greatly
appreciated!
Thanks!
Sara Patrello
Assistant Registrar
Smart Museum of Art
The University of Chicago
5550 S. Greenwood Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
spatrello at uchicago.edu
773.702.9549
smartmuseum.uchicago.edu
The Land Beneath Our Feet: American Art at the Smart
Museum
June 27?August 25, 2013
Other Modernisms: Serge Charchoune (1889?1975)
May 7?August 25, 2013
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