Fæ would be my first suggestion for a mass upload if he is available and the collection is
suitable. But reading through that link I'm not sure we can use that collection.
Apparently it was started forty years ago by a curator who invited people to bring in
historic photos and lend them to the museum to make a copy.
I'm sure that's fine for the Museum to use. But I wouldn't care to argue on
Commons that this constitutes a CC-BY-SA 3 licence for all those images. Hopefully there
will be a subset which can be dated early enough to argue PD. Maybe there are some where
the rights owner can be traced, but I'd suspect there will be a lot of photographers
from an era where some will have died long enough ago to make it difficult to trace the
heirs, and others may even still be with us. At some point in the future no doubt we can
import the lot, provided a digital copy is still extant.
Another reason why the movement needs a sealed repository from which stuff can be migrated
when it is out of copyright.
Depending on the age range of the images and the quality of the metadata there could be a
useful proportion that would be safe to upload. It all depends on the ratio of "my
grandfather died in 1880 and left us this collection" to "my grandfather died in
1980 and left us this collection".
WSC
On 14 Oct 2016, at 08:18, <rod(a)rodspace.co.uk>
<rod(a)rodspace.co.uk> wrote:
Hi all,
I have just spotted an announcement of a historic photograph digitisation project by the
friends of the Somerset Life Museum Research Group (see
https://somersetrurallifemuseum.org.uk/2016/10/13/digitisation-project/ ) aiming to
digitise 15,000 images.
I have made an initial contact asking about licencing and sharing and mentioned “mass
uploads” but I know very little about this. I believe there have been some people who have
done this for/with other GLAMS and/or developed tools to handle this. Who would be the
best person to put them in touch with if they come back to me and they are willing to
release under a suitable licence?
Rod
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