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.
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