On 07/07/2011 11:02, WereSpielChequers wrote: > Hi Rod, > > We've discussed this a couple of times at London meetups and > elsewhere, I also suspect that the UK board have discussed it. The > honest answer is I think threefold, firstly no-one in the UK has > volunteered to run it, Well, there was no clear brief as to what that involved, anyway. It is unrealistic to ask for a volunteer for something that is (i) open-ended, (ii) ill-defined, (iii) to be based on data that can be putatively obtained but no one says where, and (iv) comes without any clear definition of "monument" (quite a serious point). I did look into this matter to some extent, and would be happy to share thoughts. A Board member having said "next year", I moved it down the agenda. There might need to be a budget. > secondly in the UK we already have the > geograph mass upload which still has tens of thousands of uncategoried > images on commons. Not all of them are monuments by any means, but > enough are that our UK priority is probably more about categorising > and using what we already have whilst in other countries it may make > more sense to concentrate on filling in the gaps. Thirdly in the UK > chapter there seems to be more enthusiasm for collaborations with > Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums, this has the potential in > some collaborations such as the British Museum backstage pass to get > our photographers access to stuff that is not normally on Public > display. There is more than is dreamed of in the GLAM philosophy, though. "Filling in the gaps" is a good definition of how photographic scavenger activity ought to directed.
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