On 24/09/2010 14:40, David Gerard wrote:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/8021780/Quango-cuts-full...
Anything we can do within reason to help our dear friends in the museums?
The two things that occur to me, based on discussion with a curator after one of the British Museum bashes:
1. Get informed about the internal debate in museums, which may even be three-cornered (warehouse for objects with a few extreme-academic types treating it as research institute versus 19th century classical view as haunt of culture-vultures versus 21st century "young turk" what's-not-online-yet-is-in-danger-of-gangrene). We need to understand this and get in the "young turk" corner: go public-facing or you die.
2. Get the lawyers to find something splitting the difference between CC-by-NC and CC-by-SA. The British Museum and other major institutions can live with non-commercial use of their stuff. We cannot. CC is therefore still too crude.
Charles