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.
Charles