RE: VMs: RE: Map scans now posted...

["Don Latham" <djl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Boy, I'm not too sure (being kind of selfish) that I would like the VM
pushed onto the academic map, generating "professor books" in aid of tenure
and all the rest, devoid of humor, and drowning in the dust of academe . . .
Don

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Nick Pelling
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 10:43 AM
To: vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: VMs: RE: Map scans now posted...


Hi Chris,

>   Darn good idea. I see a lot of the current problems stem from (or are
>exacerbated by) poor quality representations of the original source
material.
>
>   What if we created a sponsorship deal of some sort? Buy a page for the
VMs
>effort, have your name permanently recorded on the margin of the image
>provided
>via the web. Make the resulting pages available free to all but under
>copyright
>to the VMs group, stipulating that they may be redistributed only without
>alteration.
>
>   I'd buy a couple pages.
>
>   I don't know anything about non-profits, but if it was possible to make
> it a tax
>deductible donation, a lot more people might contribute. I bet there's
geeks
>abounding who'd like to buy a small page of infamy.

Money isn't the issue here, it's priorities - because it's hard to link the
VMS with existing art historical traditions (and hence with art historians
etc), the VMS isn't in favour with academics, and hence isn't high up on
the Beinecke's Big List Of Important Things To Bear In Mind.

Like all institutions, the library has to prioritise its activities to fit
its budget to its stakeholders' needs - and however passionate we are about
the VMS, study of it is likely to remain a minority interest, unless some
kind of smoking cannon breakthrough occurs to push it up the list (and onto
the academic map).

For example: I'm pretty sure that I asked the Beinecke curators about the
"9-rosette" page a good while ago - AFAICR, the answer was that this had
not been digitised, was not on microfilm, and was about to undergo
restoration... all problems that our (collective) money probably cannot
solve.

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....


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