[open-heritage] Go Walters Art Museum!

Sat Nov 17 17:11:34 UTC 2012

Thanks Jonathan for sharing this!

This declaration of sorts and the contribution of over 20,000 high res
images from the Walters to Commons, stemmed from a day long workshop
similar to what took place at OKFest this year.

I then worked closely with the Walters and Dylan, head of digital new media
came down to a GLAM WIKI conference co- planned and hacked out an upload
system with MediaWiki hackers. Two weeks later the images were on Commons
and being viewed and used more than they ever were simply being on the
Walters website!

I then nagged Dylan (literally) about the site copyright. It was using a
CC-BY-SA-NC licence. Weeks later.... Voila!

Case study is in the works! :)

Now we have a new project where they are working with Wikipedians to
translate Medieval Latin documents. Yes, Latin!

Sarah
On Nov 17, 2012 5:03 AM, "Jonathan Gray" <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:

> From the legal page of Walters Art Museum in Baltimore:
>
> "All artworks in the photographs are in public domain due to age. The
> photographs of two-dimensional objects are also in the public domain.
> Photographs of three-dimensional objects and all descriptions have been
> released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported
> License and the GNU Free Documentation License."
>
> http://art.thewalters.org/license/
>
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