On 07/03/2008, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
The back rooms of museums in general are one of the world's great underutilized resources. Recently the Royal Ontario Museum managed to find a skeleton of a T-Rex that it forgot it had. Ideally we should have holographic images of every museum artifact in the world.
Commons does not support whatever Blender stores it's files as which would be about the only open format for such data I can think of.
Getting access to the vaults of museums is an area where realistically we need functioning chapters backed with some foundation influence.. Sure technically there are ways a private individual could get into them but only limited areas and the amount you could so in a session would be limited.
In any case we haven't finished mining what is on public display yet. With the even standard digital camera getting better low light capabilities working through the whole of say the [[Pitt Rivers Museum]] could be an option if we could put together a large enough party of wikipedians.
Other attack lines are university collections where we should be able to find students at the university to get things moving (universities may not like students taking an interest but there isn't much they can do about it).