Sage Ross wrote:
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.
Indeed, this issue for Wikisource is a parallel to that of public domain art for Wikimedia Commons. Properly speaking, I would not consider something an archive if it is not accessible. For collections that are not available for study, the more correct term would be "vault".
--Michael Snow