March 11th, 2010 by Shelley Bernstein
Today, we are going from 12,598 records to more than 94,000 in our collection online and this increase represents a substantial change in the way we are releasing information on the web. With the launch of the collection online in July 2008, we began with a policy to release only records that had...
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February 23rd, 2010 by Shelley Bernstein
Today, we are taking a page from Google and releasing a labs environment for our collection online. Having the collection online for 18 months has taught us a lot and there’s a plenty of data we can explore, but we need a place to do it! Edison labs, Henry Ford Museum, Detroit. Via...
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January 14th, 2010 by Deborah Wythe
“Any analysis of ownership and duration must be performed on a case-by-case basis for each work.” Copyright & Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for Digitization for U.S. Libraries, Archives & Museums. Peter Hirtle, Emily Hudson and Andrew T. Kenyon (Ithaca, NY: Cornell...
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January 14th, 2010 by Arlene Yu
Some of you may have noticed how, over time, some of the small images on our site—the ones with the “Why is this image so small?” caption – have morphed into larger, downloadable ones. This has happened as we’ve found and contacted artists (or their heirs or other...
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January 13th, 2010 by Deborah Wythe
Copyright is complicated. What’s protected? What’s not? And it’s even more complicated for art, where the work may not be dated and there are questions about whether it was “published” and what “publication” means. And it’s a legal matter, which is enough to make anyone a bit...
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