[OpenGLAM] [GLAM] [GLAM-US] Getty's James Cuno: Advocate for Open Content

Tue Aug 13 05:36:25 UTC 2013

This is genuinely exciting and quite a forceful statement from them - all
the while recognising that the times and best practices have changed and
that they should too.

I tested the system a bit.... I chose one of the PD works and clicked
download:
http://search.getty.edu/museum/records/musobject?objectid=305961
It gives you a useful caption and metadata and asks what kind of person you
are or organisation you represent, and then asks what kind of usage you
will make of the image.
For the purposes of my experiment I chose "for profit company" and
"commercial use", clicked submit and.... it downloaded straight away. No
extra hurdles or warnings or requirements to pay etc. I suspect that the
two questions are more about their interest in seeing how the files end up
getting used - and that is a very fair thing for them to want to try and
get stats on.

Fantastic!

wittylama.com
Peace, love & metadata

On 13 August 2013 12:07, Sydney <sydney.poore at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sweet. They look to be encouraging use which is really great too
>
> Sydney
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Aug 13, 2013, at 6:51 AM, Sarah Stierch <sarah.stierch at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Awesome.
>
> A lot of us have spent time with them - and James. He came to the OpenGLAM
> US professional development event.
>
> This is awesome! Woot!
>
> Sarah
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Aug 13, 2013, at 3:37 AM, Lori Phillips <lori.byrd.phillips at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I was very excited to see this blog post come out of the Getty today, from
> CEO James Cuno, who is both a polarizing and respected force in the museum
> world. In the U.S. we've been trying to encourage the Getty to release
> their Vocabularies into the public domain for years. In my last effort, I
> had the Dallas Museum of Art's Rob Stein tell me he would be sure to
> "strongly encourage" this as soon as he could, because there was really no
> reason why it shouldn't be. So that is a great win for us, in addition to
> the fact that the Getty is a new proponent and advocate for open culture in
> general.
>
> http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/open-content-an-idea-whose-time-has-come/
>
> I'm also personally quite proud that the recent Horizon Report: Museum
> Edition was cited as his rationale, thanks to the fact that Open Content
> was included as a near-term horizon in the 2012 report. We worked hard to
> get that included this year, since Open Content has been on the bubble in
> past Horizon Reports. It's also exciting to see the Walters listed first
> among Cuno's listing of forward thinking institutions in the US who have
> paved the way for open culture.
>
> This blog should prove useful for those still needing convincing - enjoy!
>
> Lori
>
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> Digital Marketing Content Coordinator
> The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
>
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