On 15 February 2014 20:24, Michael Peel <michael.p...@manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> Perhaps it would be worth WMUK thinking about purchasing such equipment, > either to be made available in the office (which would then require travel > costs, or postal costs and volunteer time in the office to scan posted > material in), or to be sent around to interested volunteers? > Of course, both purchase and maintenance costs should be thought about here, > both for the machine itself and for the equipment that’s needed to interface > with it, and also insurance costs... Depending on demand and durability, that > may or may not make this cost-effective. > Or maybe there are renting-on-demand options available for equivalent, more > recent, equipment that can do the job? > (It’s not a white elephant so long as the up-front costs turn out to be > worthwhile, given that it shouldn't cost much to recycle it if it breaks…) Hmm. Do we have any vague ideas on numbers? * How often do we get a reasonable chance at a cache of unscanned negatives? * How many smaller museums or archives would have unscanned film to offer in such a case? * How many people with private collections of negatives that they've never gotten around to scanning (e.g., me) would suddenly have a huge pile of stuff to donate to Commons just given the opportunity? - d. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
