Most of these institutions have a mission to inform the public. Openness helps fulfill that mission. In the Bundesarchiv's case, donation of 100,000 images significantly increased their sales of images. That may seem counterintuitive but if an organization is smart about it everyone benefits. We're working to build synergies. Various kinds of synergies can develop. That's one of them.
-Durova On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Steve Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 3:30 AM, Durova <[email protected]> wrote: > > 4. Persuade the staff to change policy. > > This is the approach I've been working on, one institution at a time. A > > group of volunteers have been pooling information and resources toward > that > > end. We've had some successes and are gaining momentum. For > > Interesting, what's in it for them? They're giving up control over > their "property", but what do they get in return? > > Steve > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > -- http://durova.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
