Posts by Sacha
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Speaker: This is your National Library, in reply to paynter,
which can be interpreted to mean that they ought not to be made available in such a way that they can be treated disrespectfully, particularly if they're pictures of living people, ancestors, or symbols. That's potentially a real showstopper for online access to many items.
Thanks for the response. If items were published digitally before you 'collected' them, doesn't that make a difference? And is the notion of 'ownership' affected by the ability to make endless copies wihtout affecting the physical integrity of the source?
I certainly understand the onus when you've been donated items, although again there would seem a difference if they have already been made available digitally beforehand.
I guess the Library may need to revisit as part of the Access review what rights and obligations to impose conditions are conferred by the act of collecting and curating. And even what 'respect' means in digital cultures. Those social media guidelines for public servants are one example of adapting moral codes to modern times. Kaitiakitanga offers other lessons.
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Speaker: This is your National Library, in reply to Joe Wylie,
the top-down nature of how the project seems to have been commissioned
That really suprirses you with this government?
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Thanks, Gordon. I'd be interested in hearing more about the logic behind restricting access to digital taonga rather than encouraging it. What cultural base is the policy drawing on?
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Spot-on satirical summary from our friends across the ditch (h/t Jack Yan).
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Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
the silencer of the lambs
bravo
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Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
This isn't the future I'd thought it would be
The Jetsons has a lot to answer for
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Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving, in reply to Lilith __,
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Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving, in reply to Lilith __,
Major negotiations with senior US representatives going on there at the time.
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Totally off-topic, but the final shuttle touches down in about 20 minutes - watch live at http://nasa.gov
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Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
It's only 5 hours drive to Nelson. less to Picton or Blenheim. Could get domestic flights from there.
But chauffered by the local consular head? And the claim seems to be direct flights from Chch - which I agree with Stephen needs some verifying. Brings back memories of the bin Laden family's special chartered flights out of locked-down US airspace immediately after 9/11.