On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, Remember the archive of Cologne? It collapsed. When we have as a policy to have the exact files on Commons as provided by a GLAM, we prove provenance because our best practice is to include the material in our archive as provided by a GLAM. When we decide for all kinds of reasons to transcode it to another format we can and should when it makes sense. It makes sense as long as we keep the original.
We are not an archive.
If an archive collapses, they should take care of the items in their positions, gifting them to someone else who can take them. If they don't, they are a very poor archive.
-- John Vandenberg