On 07/07/2011 11:02, WereSpielChequers wrote:
Hi Rod,
We've discussed this a couple of times at London meetups and elsewhere, I also suspect that the UK board have discussed it. The honest answer is I think threefold, firstly no-one in the UK has volunteered to run it,
Well, there was no clear brief as to what that involved, anyway. It is unrealistic to ask for a volunteer for something that is (i) open-ended, (ii) ill-defined, (iii) to be based on data that can be putatively obtained but no one says where, and (iv) comes without any clear definition of "monument" (quite a serious point). I did look into this matter to some extent, and would be happy to share thoughts. A Board member having said "next year", I moved it down the agenda. There might need to be a budget.
secondly in the UK we already have the geograph mass upload which still has tens of thousands of uncategoried images on commons. Not all of them are monuments by any means, but enough are that our UK priority is probably more about categorising and using what we already have whilst in other countries it may make more sense to concentrate on filling in the gaps. Thirdly in the UK chapter there seems to be more enthusiasm for collaborations with Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums, this has the potential in some collaborations such as the British Museum backstage pass to get our photographers access to stuff that is not normally on Public display.
There is more than is dreamed of in the GLAM philosophy, though. "Filling in the gaps" is a good definition of how photographic scavenger activity ought to directed.
Charles