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The Met Makes 375k Images Available for Free

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Re: The Met Makes 375k Images Available for Free

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Post by X86BSD »

First I applaud the met for this. Well done!

Sigh, now if only the museums would each stop reinventing the wheel regarding online virtual museum software, internal asset management, etc and work on an open source version of said apps. It's so tiresome that there isn't a decent OS app out there to handle curation, inter museum loans, virtual display of scanned assets to the public etc. everyone goes off and writes the same apps over and over and over again and never shares it. They need to get together and write one OS suite to be shared to all museums.

Re: The Met Makes 375k Images Available for Free

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X86BSD wrote: post #4

First I applaud the met for this. Well done! Sigh, now if only the museums would each stop reinventing the wheel regarding online virtual museum software, internal asset management, etc and work on an open source version of said apps. It's so tiresome that there isn't a decent OS app out there to handle curation, inter museum loans, virtual display of scanned assets to the public etc. everyone goes off and writes the…

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Re: The Met Makes 375k Images Available for Free

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Post by zodPod »

[deleted] wrote: post #6
X86BSD wrote: post #4

First I applaud the met for this. Well done! Sigh, now if only the museums would each stop reinventing the wheel regarding online virtual museum software, internal asset management, etc and work on an open source version of said apps. It's so tiresome that there isn't a decent OS app out there to handle curation, inter museum loans, virtual display of scanned assets to the public etc. everyone goes off and writes the…

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Re: The Met Makes 375k Images Available for Free

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Post by delish »

I'm curious about their reasoning for choosing Creative Commons Zero over the public domain. I'm fond of the public domain; I've released some of my software[0] into the public domain. Cynically, I think it's more fashionable and branded to license something CC0 than declare it public domain. Despite my cynicism, I like that they're doing this.

The article says:

> Enabled by the Museum's move to open access, we also announced today a series of major new partnerships—with Creative Commons, the Wikimedia community, Artstor . . . We'll be blogging about these partnerships in the coming weeks . . .

I suppose releasing pictures into the public domain doesn't lend itself to "major new partnerships." ;).

[0] not that anybody's ever used it!

Re: The Met Makes 375k Images Available for Free

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Post by subliminalbrad »

delish wrote: post #8

I'm curious about their reasoning for choosing Creative Commons Zero over the public domain. I'm fond of the public domain; I've released some of my software[0] into the public domain. Cynically, I think it's more fashionable and branded to license something CC0 than declare it public domain. Despite my cynicism, I like that they're doing this. The article says: > Enabled by the Museum's move to open access, we also…

Many countries don't have a concept of public domain. CC0 is a better international baseline to achieve the same thing.
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