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

[Adrianne Russell]

This is fantastic. Glad to see small museums leading the charge!

On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Rob Lancefield on lists <
lists at lancefield.net> wrote:

> Hi Sarah and all,
>
> I can guess why it passed by you: we never really announced it! It's been
> in kind of a soft-launch mode until, well, today. This OpenGLAM thread
> seemed like a good place to start spreading word more actively.
>
> I should also mention that while our policies have been in place for a
> while now, much of our implementation of DAC Collection Search and LIDO
> metadata will remain in iterative public beta for some time; so if and as
> anyone here tries them out and bumps into any issues, please do let me know
> offlist (rlancefield[at]wesleyan.edu). I'm always grateful to learn about
> things I need to add to my to-fix lists for both resources.
>
> cheers,
> Rob
>
> 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 10/20/14 2:29 PM, Sarah Stierch wrote:
>
>> 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 <mailto: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. ...
>>
> _______________________________________________
> open-glam mailing list
> open-glam at lists.okfn.org
> https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-glam
> Unsubscribe: https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/open-glam
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-glam/attachments/20141020/82c0b48b/attachment-0003.html>