Reminds me I did a map of Robben Island a few years ago, that someone might be interested
in translating into English:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robbenisland.png
/Leo
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Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 11:18:45 +0200
From: nick(a)roux.co.za
To: wikimediaza(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia ZA] Copy Right Issue at Apartheid Museum
There is a third reason they may be
sensitive about photographs. Theft.
The National Museum for Military History has introduced a
no-photography policy following a number of incidents of theft.
Criminals would take photos of high value, small items and use
those to compile a shopping list when planning the crime.
Nick
On 06/06/2013 10:54, Douglas Scott wrote:
Hi Oarabile,
Expanding and enhancing connections and relations
with museums (especially outstanding ones like the Apartheid
Museum) here in South Africa is definitely on Wikimedia ZA's
to do list. I have not talked to that museum directly my self
as I am located in Cape Town but I have talked to the Natural
History Museum and they seem open to building a strong
relationship with the local Wiki community. I suspect the
same would likely be true of the Apartheid Museum in
Johannesburg.
I think there are two likely reasons why the
Apartheid Museum is so sensitive about photographs.
Fear that too much flash photography by museum
goers will damage exhibits
Unclear copyright policies of material hosted
and/or owned by government departments (I think this is a
lesser issue that largely sits at the back of peoples
minds)
The first one is easy to get around if it is a
group of Wikimedians coming in for a special behind the
scenes GLAM event similar to the Ice
Age event that the UK Chapter hosted. The second one
I think is a lesser problem that can be got around in the
short term through simple relationship building and
outreach. In the long term it has deeper implications for
access to data (for example) and other material from
government departments that involves questions around open
data and developing a clear government policy around
copyright issues of its own material, this is more complex.
Cheers,
Douglas.
On 6 June 2013 00:27, Oarabile Mudongo
<mudongo.oarabile(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Greetings Fellow Wikipedians
I happened to visit the Apartheid Museum in South
Africa this week and i must say it is one of the few
museums Ii have visited in my life with so much vital
asserts and information that the future generations of
this world would really need for tomorrow.It is also
one of the museums that are so emotional due to the
documentaries you see playing on the screens and
generally the pictures of how people lived during
Apartheid time, because of the vast information found
from within the Museum which i think from my own
perspective my worry lies much in the issue of COPY
RIGHT.
"The Apartheid
Museum in South Africa is read through the lens
of a condition of 'prepossession', where
histories of trauma continue to haunt a site
while manifesting effectively through spatial
ambiguities, which lead to an experience of
'empathetic unsettledness'. Paradoxes concerning
the provenance of the building and its location
are discussed. An analysis follows of changing
registers of spatiality through selected key
areas of the complex, with reference to Henri
Lefebvre's analysis of alternative experiences
of space. His notion of 'lived' space is
applicable to trauma architecture as discussed
by concentration camp researcher Wolfgang
Sofsky. It is argued that the building
critically performs a content which exceeds the
limits of representation, thus engendering a
sense of embodied unease. Further complications
include the appropriation of suffering in
dialectical tension with a moving commemoration
of apartheid iniquities".
I tried getting some photos of some of the things i
thought they could benefit us a movement and share them
on Wikimedia Commons maybe also for community engagement
projects such as JoburgpediA,Wiki Loves Monuments and
other GLAM projects but i was denied such an
opportunity.I was seriously hurt and just let down.May i
kindly recommend you to keep good partnership with the
museum and try lobby for free copy right for easier
sharing of their resources on Wikipedia and its sister
projects.
Kind Regards
--
Oarabile Joseph Mudongo
Cellphone: +26774899486 /
+26774131307\
mudongo.oarabile(a)gmail.com
mudongo.oarabile(a)yahoo.com
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