At the American Numismatic Society we have just begun putting thumbnail
images of all objects that are sent down to the photography department
on to our web-site. You can see links to these at
http://www.amnumsoc.org/collections/images/imlist.html .
This is a fairly aggressive policy but it has been well received by our
membership and the general public. We decided that the public service
far outweighs the copyright risk.
It's only 400 coins right now but we intend to just keep going through
our collection of almost 1 million objects. The scale of this project
raises all sorts of technological and financial issues but we are happy
with the internet as a distribution medium from the philosophical point
of view.
-Sebastian
-----Original Message-----
From: John Martinson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 11:07 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Pros' and Cons' of collectionon the Internet or a webpage
Dear Museum-Lers,
I am interested in knowing any ideas or the pros and cons of having your
artifacts such as pictures of objects on the Internet. I wanted to do
so.
Our Park is a nonprofit
organization that manages the state property and collection, and the
individual with
the State said "no." However, now they want me to speak at a meeting on
the
topic.
To me the collection and artifacts are not just for showing and
exhibiting,
but
educational...and the value of research, discovering more about the
topic
would open
if they are on the Internet. I did not imply to put the entire
collection/inventor on, but would like certain items as examples of
early
Mormon furniture, Utah pottery, some of
the historic homes, etc. I know there are researchers who now are
researching our
pottery for MS papers' and reports. So this is a pro....making a
collection
more
accessible for research.
For example, a negative factor is the concerns with copyright and people
on
the Web who might take items from the collection they find on the web
and use
them for their own
purpose. So it opens legalities and new issues.
Help, help, OHHHH Help!!! Any ideas for conversation and a list of pros
and
cons
I could discuss at the meeting?
Best, John Martinson, Curator, This Is The Place Heritage Park
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