[OpenGLAM] CC0 metadata from American art museums [was: Minneapolis Institute of Arts release metadata CC0]

Mon Oct 20 18:29:12 UTC 2014

Awesome! Great to hear - not sure how this passed by me and I am sorry I
did not know thank you for sharing this!

Sarah
On Oct 20, 2014 10:09 AM, "Rob Lancefield on lists" <lists at lancefield.net>
wrote:

> Hi Sarah and all,
>
> As a small-museum example, metadata from the Davison Art Center at
> Wesleyan University has been CC0 since 10/2/2013. The DAC collection
> consists chiefly of 18,000 prints and 6,000 photographs, with strongest
> holdings in European and American prints. So, hey: CC0 "back" in 2013 from
> a U.S. art museum, albeit a tiny one nested within a university.
>
> For example, if you go to http://dac-collection.wesleyan.edu/Obj489 ,
> that object page has a small link labeled "Download core metadata for this
> object as LIDO"; the metadata each such link pulls is marked as CC0 in the
> LIDO record's "recordRights" section. So far, this metadata is downloadable
> only as single-object LIDO in that way. As soon as I can,* I plan to build
> ways to offer it in more formats and in batches.
>
> On a related note, the DAC Open Access Images policy has been in place
> since 12/12/2012 for all PD works for which we have suitable images:
>
> http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/open/openaccess.html
>
> And you can browse the 2,000+ downloadable DAC Open Access Images we've
> been able to produce so far; almost all of them represent prints.
>
> http://dac-collection.wesleyan.edu ("DAC Open Access Images" button)
>
> We'll be adding more as digital imaging of the collection proceeds.
>
> best regards,
> Rob
>
> *This phased approach is due to staff bandwidth (mine); our entire museum
> operation has a staff of three, and there are always loads of contending
> priorities.
>
> Rob Lancefield
> Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
> Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
> 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
> rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu  |  tel. 860.685.2965
>
> On 10/18/14 2:51 PM, Sarah Stierch wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I was lamenting on Twitter this week that no American art museums[1][2]
>> had opened their metadata CC0, which is stifling work at the Wikidata
>> project, WikIProject Sum of All Paintings, and just continues to put the
>> USA in what feels like a geological age behind the EU regarding metadata
>> licensing.
>>
>> This morning I woke up to find out that the Minneapolis Institute of
>> Arts has released their metadata for over ~90,000 artworks CC0.
>>
>> https://github.com/artsmia/collection
>>
>> I was talking with staff members on Twitter today - and mentioned that
>> their PD artworks are still held under a very restrictive copyright, and
>> you have to pay for the works. They informed me that they are in the
>> process of opening up their PD works very soon.
>>
>> Yahoooooo
>>
>> -Sarah
>>
>>
>>
>> [1] The Cooper-Hewitt has released their metadata under CC0 but it is a
>> design museum.
>> [2] The Walters Art Museum has licensed it's data under CC BY...hoping
>> they will change that soon.
>> [2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_sum_of_
>> all_paintings
>>
>> --
>>
>> Sarah Stierch
>>
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>>
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>>
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