Hi Tom, In answer to your question, I'm certain that would be no problem at all. And those images sound really interesting.
Thanks, Stevie On 19 February 2014 13:08, Tom Morris <[email protected]> wrote: > -----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 > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk > -- Stevie Benton Head of External Relations Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173 @StevieBenton Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.*
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