[Foundation-l] GLAM in Holland

[John at Darkstar]

This is important; is it possible to get some kind of agreement with the
 NPG and what will it cost us? Some museums are willing to support our
mission, but we can't just assume that they are in a possition to accept
 every rip-off from their web sites and other publications.

John

Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> Hoi,
> I am saddened about the current situation about the National Portrait
> Gallery and the high resolution pictures that were lifted from its website.
> The problem that I have is in the vocabulary used, it paints the NPG as our
> enemy and we are to use pitch forks and fiery speeches to make them aware of
> our displeasure and our wish to fight. It is sad because it is exactly the
> kind of rhetoric that may damage our budding relations with GLAM in for
> instance the Netherlands. (GLAM is galleries libraries archives museums).
> 
> There is much happening in the Netherlands when it comes to the collections
> of GLAM. There are limited subsidies for digitising material and this is
> happening. Much of the material becomes available on the Internet. We are
> talking and have been talking for many months about sharing and using our
> digital heritage on Commons and Wikipedia. There have been talks with
> national organisations and individual museums. There are many powerful
> arguments why we want to partner with GLAM.
> 
>    - we need many illustrations for our Wikipedias and we want to have a
>    choice of illustrations for all our Wikipedias
>    - it is important that we have provenance for our illustrations, not just
>    for copyright reasons but particularly to prove the value as an illustration
>       - photoshop or gimp can give a picture a whole new meaning
>    - by partnering with GLAM we open their world to our communities, Wiki
>    loves art is one project that shows that we can
>    - by prartnering with GLAM we gain in respectability
> 
> Recently I have been blogging about our budding relation with the Tropen
> museum. We are looking at an initial upload of some 100.000 illustrations
> that are of particular relevance to our Indonesian projects. These
> illustrations will become available at a similar resolution as the ones of
> the Bundesarchiv. They will be old photos and other flat techniques but also
> photos of three dimensional objects. We are talking on how we can grow the
> relation in the future. We talked about releasing high resolution scans of
> material that needs restoration, we talked about their object of the month
> project..
> 
> There are two other GLAM that we are talking to at the moment. They are as
> relevant as the Tropen musuem. I am fearful about the development of our
> relation with them and with the development of the national organisations. I
> am saddened because I fear that it will now be not as easy to develop all
> these relations.
> Thanks,
>       GerardM
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