On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Kat Walsh<kat(a)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:
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november05/hamma/11hamma.html
Along similar lines, this is worth reading:
"Archives or Assets?"
http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/bitstream/1813/52/3/Archives%20or%20ass…
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)