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[iTWire - Latest Headlines] iTWire - Wikimedia: Conference seeks open cultural content: Other speakers include Wikimedia Deutschland project officer Mathias Schindler outlining the experience in Germany of the Bundes Archiv (National Archive) donation of 100,000 photos to the Wikimedia community through a commons licence, as well as the Powerhouse museum’s Seb Chan (a member of Lindsay Tanner’s Gov 2.0 Taskforce), and the director of the National Library of New Zealand Paul Reynolds.

[Past Thinking] Past Thinking » Blog Archive » National Portrait Gallery / Wikimedia: However, all this said, I think my original points need reassertion and if you had read all of my post, seen previous ones and seen my latest comment you would know that I am a strong advocate of more open access. What I do not countenance is things being done dishonourably.

[Witty's Blog] GLAM-WIKI attendees | Witty's Blog: Wikimedia Australia's forthcoming event. Museum of Australian Democracy Museum Victoria Museums & Galleries NSW Museums Aotearoa Museums Australia Museums Australia (Victoria) National Archives of Australia National Film & Sound Archive National Gallery of Australia National Gallery of Victoria National Library New Zealand National Library of Australia National Museum of Australia National Portrait Gallery of Australia National Trust NSW .

[All The Modern Things] All The Modern Things: The low-hanging GLAM fruit: one for the Wikimedia community and one for the cultural institution – each containing specific, practical measures to enable the achievement of better online public access to cultural heritage.

[fresh + new(er)] Some thoughts: post #GLAM-WIKI 2009: Seb and I have just spent two days at a conference, in the nation’s rather chilly capital that involved a bunch of Wikimedians (wonder what that would be called) and members from the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries and Museum sector) sector. This event was touted as a two-way dialogue to see how the two sectors could work more closely together for “the achievement of better online public access to cultural heritage”.

[All The Modern Things] All The Modern Things: Wikimedia Australia GLAMming it up - August ...: The conference's title is Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums & Wikimedia: Finding the common ground. It's very much Liam Wyatt's (WMAU's VP) brainchild, borne out of his experiences talking to GLAM organisations and finding out how .

[p2pnet news] p2pnet news » Blog Archive » Old Nick and the National Portrait ...: Individual Wikimedia volunteers work with museums and archives to restore digital versions of old images by removing visible marks such as stains and scratches. The work is painstaking and difficult, but the results are terrific: the work is returned to its original glory, with its full informational value restored.

[David Gerard] David Gerard » Blog Archive » Wikimedia writes on the NPG legal ...: Thus, external parties, such as say, professionals hired by Wikimedia UK (they’re not just going to let amateurs with a scanner do it, are they?) would not be able to release reproductions done at their own expense into the public domain. It’s this control of access which should be challenged.

[p2pnet news] p2pnet news » Blog Archive » Derrick Coetzee vs National Portrait ...: . NPG’s solicitors stated in their letter that “Our client used the Zoomify technology to protect our client’s copyright in the high resolution images.”. Zoomify Inc. states in the Zoomify support documentation that its product is intended to make copying of images “more difficult” by breaking the image into smaller pieces and disabling the option within many web browsers to click and save images, but that they “provide Zoomify as a viewing solution and not an image security system”.

[PEOPLEPOINTS] P E O P L E P O I N T S: Notes from Sydney, Australia - GLAM ...: And then you remember just why you started this blog. Custom House Public Library I'm writing this in a fabulous reading room on the third floor of the Custom House public library.

[Whispering Gums] Why I link to Wikipedia « Whispering Gums: this morning that the Australian branch of Wikimedia was going to meet today with about 170 representatives from Australian museums and galleries to talk about collaboration. I assume they'll be more successful than the parent Wikimedia .

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