-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Michael Peel wrote: > Really, the important questions here are: who has collections that > would benefit Wikimedia and need scanning, and who has the time to > scan and upload them? It shouldn’t really be a question about > equipment cost beyond the cost-effectiveness of scanning and sharing > them. >
I have access (both physical and legal) to a large collection of both colour and B&W slides of various parts of Britain taken by my grandfather, Josiah Sturgeon. He was a civil service architect who designed quite a number of prisons and lifeboat stations and advised the government on other big construction projects. He also was a maritime painter and a member of the Royal Society of Marine Artists, and one of his paintings is in the Guildhall Art Gallery collection. The photographs he took over the years are mostly of Scotland, especially the Hebrides, but also cover coastal and rivers in England and Wales. There's also quite a lot of (what was then) Yugoslavia. They are taken with the eye of an artist and often show places that have now disappeared. I think there's definitely some educational and illustrative value in the images. Scanning them and putting them on Commons might be a more fitting and useful thing to do with them than keep them in an attic for a few more decades. So I might take up the offer of using the slide scanner at some point. One question: if one scanned a whole set of images using WMUK resources—say, a few hundred slides—and one or two of them were personal (in the case of my grandfather's photos, there might be a few showing my grandmother and/or my mother), can those be exempted from being uploaded or licensed for Commons? - -- Tom Morris <http://tommorris.org/> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.15 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTBKzoAAoJEJwR297kLQ2wvcEP/2UM31jnp32BRSBgD0m5UXTF 5vOEdhBiDnimAx7psK9paPp/Yvv1+r5hnbvlMCVm8RouexRZVpNXNWEqcHEbIwJq JDVCppMqNeTMZoJU9UCSh25TigfZHZ2egeKhxVnLM4jVcVZeyowTpt38WwXzijxJ U+aqXxMIpsd1zFtq2UbkHat6pTkJ2glKnaL2Lnl8evsD4gSp4j2+XH8Qqo/3dgXj nltZW6UGlqZDZz+OgJlvopCGE8WcMTZzSNvkxtSHAOiRzzQjuaNelwMTLctwyKbR KHbZXp2mVfUgAmDyl31KhdYSgSkO1tizUy3kijMkrFEf/n5yUUhEb9TUJ5bXlIWp 3JV/J2p4z3me2NF/2wNXVFdNJNqes1QuqQYBsBu+hiBcMl6VXbqRS4LcznJSJkuB xaGpzpHc3kcQ124Ef1bd4x0tXlC2CErONpjVhemdyZ+Fg9WusacUwB4UnwLYxIHB TWQz2rstUDMU5eA6Yc+McswGvo/pkl6dp7I/6V5H5F9tyT9Ui+izJ2drrYuDvENc G3ohpdVt/J7x07AWdSUlC2Pwls54lInjUWfxR9YreSn9CpgImXO765l5nmFmd07O o/ToP5f77ObH04QcJuTzSc9LP+giujy7lLdZdv5jEecjK2a5dmM1eQ8G8S5kpnXC VX4AKct9CVIzL/SqPGcO =ED64 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
