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

Tue Aug 13 14:31:21 UTC 2013

Hi guys,

This really is great news, very impressive. Would be great to see PD
Markers next to the images to make it *even *clearer, but good job Getty!

I've just published a brief news piece about this OpenGLAM:

http://openglam.org/blog

All the best,
Sam

On 13 August 2013 06:36, Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>
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