On 19 February 2014 00:34, Newyorkbrad <newyorkbrad(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm surprised not to see any replies to this
particular thread. It seems
to me to be a "no-brainer" (to use a nonce-word that I hate) that imaging
equipment for local wiki organizations in a position to make good use of it
to upload free content for the projects should be a high priority for
funding at whatever level.
There are some fairly solid practical problems. Firstly scanning is boring.
Trying to get volunteers to do it on a large scale is going to be
difficult.
Secondly GLAMS tend to prefer that material handling be limited to
professionals or their internal volunteers only
Thirdly the copyright of slides is often messy. If the original
photographer has died and they didn't mention copyright in their will any
copyrights could well be held by multiple people.
--
geni