Hi all.
I did some work on this last year when reworking our digitisation plans. If you can wait till monday I'll drop an email about it to the list?
On 15 February 2014 20:56, Michael Peel <michael.peel@manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 15 Feb 2014, at 20:43, David Gerard <dgerard@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.
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