Absolutely agree, of course. And see today's NYT article about the
Rijksmuseum's contribution to the way forward:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/29/arts/design/museums-mull-public-use-of-online-art-images.html?nl=todaysheadlinesemc=edit_th_20130529_r=0
?We?re a public institution, and so the
An addendum to this thread is the fact that many institutions, Princeton among
them, are more quietly adopting an open access to public domain images policy -
I'd be interested in a show of hands.
Cathryn
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From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu]
Hello all,
Since Cathryn asked for a show of hands, here's one. The Davison Art
Center, Wesleyan University also is a case of so-far quiet adoption. Our
open access images policy has been in effect and in use since
12/12/2012; but until we can make an initial critical mass of images
available
The Cornell University Library adopted an open access to public domain images
policy in 2009. You can read our rationale in this article at
http://publications.arl.org/rli266/2. To date, the museum at Cornell has not
elected to follow the Library's lead.
Peter Hirtle
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Not to take this down a completely different line (perhaps a subset of this
terrific string) but, not mentioned in the Times article is the fact that the
Rijksmuseum also has 140,000+ images, in very high resolution, available
through the Europeana portal
User-created content is an integral part of the online experience. From
slideshows on Flickr to articles on Wikipedia, from discussions on Twitter to
cat videos on YouTube, millions of users produce and disseminate new content
every day. Very often this micro-production takes place outside of
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We've tried out the Rijksmuseum site and found that the
free image for personal use comes through as a compressed JPG of about 1 Mb or
less,
though it could be that some works have larger master images -- hard to tell.
Any scholarly or commercial use just bounces you to their normal image
This has been a really interested thread for me to read (as an OpenGLAM
volunteer and open culture advocate). Always strange to be an outsider
to these things :) (i.e. I don't work in a GLAM right now as paid staff)
Deb - I do have one comment about the BM website. It has been quite
sometime
FWIW, I think the Met is in the same position as the BM; website terms-of-use
being more restrictive than copyright law, for images of 2d pd works.
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On May 29, 2013, at 2:01 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah at sarahstierch.com wrote:
This has been a really interested thread for me
I think it's worth noting for the record that Deb Wythe and the Brooklyn Museum
began making public domain images available way before other US museums, and
with fewer restrictions. Brooklyn (and to some extent the Met) have been early
in moving toward open, free access to all p.d. images.
To
Hello,
My museum currently uses barcodes to track objects. We do ongoing inventories
of our collections where we take a hand-held scanner, scan the barcode for a
location, scan multiple barcodes for objects in that location, download the
scanner data to a desktop computer, and upload this data
Hi Cris,
We also use barcodes to track our objects at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary,
Alberta. Like you, our locations and our objects are barcoded - we use data
from our CMS (STAR/Museums) developed by Cuadra Associates Inc. and a piece of
software called Bartender, developed by Seagull
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