On 15 February 2014 20:56, Michael Peel <michael.peel(a)manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
On 15 Feb 2014, at 20:43, David Gerard
<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmm. Do we have any vague ideas on numbers?
> * How often do we get a reasonable chance at a cache of unscanned negatives?
> * How many smaller museums or archives would have unscanned film to
> offer in such a case?
> * How many people with private collections of negatives that they've
> never gotten around to scanning (e.g., me) would suddenly have a huge
> pile of stuff to donate to Commons just given the opportunity?
Really, the important questions here are: who has
collections that would benefit Wikimedia and need scanning, and who has the time to scan
and upload them? It shouldn’t really be a question about equipment cost beyond the
cost-effectiveness of scanning and sharing them.
Yes. I suppose I'm asking, "is it just a nice idea or will it actually
get used a lot?"
(I'd have nothing against people scanning personal photos that might
not be appropriate for Commons as well as material to be donated to
the commons. Anyone with a good stash would quite appreciate the
chance to digitise their precious moments.)
- d.