On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Kat Walshkat@mindspillage.org wrote:
The Executive Director for Digital Policy of the J. Paul Getty Trust has written an article on digitally-reproducible works of public domain art, and museums' mission, arguing why and how museums should properly make these works as unrestrictedly available as possible -- thought people here would find it a worthwhile read:
Along similar lines, this is worth reading: "Archives or Assets?" http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/bitstream/1813/52/3/Archives%20or%20asse...
It's the 2003 address to to the Society of American Archivists from the society's president Peter B. Hirtle, in which he argues along the same lines for archival holdings.
-Sage (User:Ragesoss)