Comments on: Copyright is complicated

By: Recuperar Archivos Formateados

Recuperar Archivos Formateados — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 11:03:29 +0000

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By: Deborah Wythe

Deborah Wythe — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:49:36 +0000

Hi Mark,
Well, it was a big job. We went through the entire TMS database, which is tens of thousands of records. It’s hard to say how long it took, since I’ve been doing this along with the rest of my Digital Lab tasks for a while — pretty intensively since September. Staff is me and a rotating group of interns, plus folks on the Tech side for the website, and in the Registrar’s office when we need to do batch updates to TMS.

We do have a DAM (Luna), which provides images and metadata to the website, along with TMS. (Check out my earlier posts on that project). TMS is the logical place for rights information on the art collection. The images are all by us, so we can define their use as we like within the constraints of the underlying art copyright; there are fields in Luna for image credit, along with the object rights information pulled from TMS.

So the answer is: yes, you can do this on a shoestring. Don’t get hung up on what a big and complicated job it is: just get in there and start chipping away!

By: ruben

ruben — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:59:11 +0000

By: Mark Hilton

Mark Hilton — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:12:01 +0000

Deborah
Thanks for this so far. We are attempting to undertake a similar project ourselves. How many works of art in total were included in this project, how long did it take and with how many staff was it undertaken, and further what was the cost of the project. Also we too use TMS, and note how you have used it. Did you ever consider purchasing any other image database management software, was it a case of trying not to over-complicate things and sticking with TMS alone, or was it a cost issue?
Crikey, that’s a thorough interrogation – I do apologise but it will help us focus our efforts this side of the pond if we can your thought processes?

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By: Deborah Wythe

Deborah Wythe — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:32:24 +0000

Thanks for understanding! Yes, I spent a lot of time crunching our collections database (TMS) to assign rights types and a lot of time on the Web looking up artist dates when we didn’t have them. Our focus so far has been identifying rights types for everything and starting to clear the ones that are clearly under copyright. Now that we’ve gotten there, we can start thinking about down the road.

TMS doesn’t have a built in capability to let us automate annual changes, particularly since many works of art are undated and there is the issue of whether they’ve been published or not. At the very least, we could create object packages as we identify the cut off dates for individual works (“out_of_copyright_2012), and call that up and update the rights types as a batch each year. Not elegant, but probably effective.

Deb

By: Erika dicker

Erika dicker — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:44:32 +0000

This must have been a huge amount of work! Is there something automated in place that upgrades copyright status as works become releasedfrom their copyright period or will you have to be constantly upgrading things yearly?

By: Dan Dennehy

Dan Dennehy — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:33:44 +0000

Thanks for sharing your creative approaches to these important issues.