Hugh,
Thanks for posting,
Fred, thanks for comments.
I completely agree,
There is nothing that can compare with personal touch and personal approach.
I think that all these Virtual do their part to give more access to more people, but I think that it gives people more choices to choose where to go
Hugh wrote "One of the disappointing things to FIRELOCK is that many of our clients request that we never mention that they are a client."
It reminds me comment made by one disinfection and pest control company when clients ask to come tot heir fields in vehicle without ID signs, as company declare that they sell ecologically clear products.
I think in our world only naive people will trust stories that "10 years ago we did not lock our doors..."
Hugh is write, visiting museums require lot of energy, and Fred is right when writes that he spent lot of time "searching" in one collection, comparing his knowledge from school, books, and other sources with real "Artifacts".
The same with me.
Agree with both, and don't argue.
Alex
--- On Tue, 3/6/12, Frederic Grevin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Frederic Grevin <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [RM] Close and Personal With Your Digital Treasures - Thoughts?
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Received: Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 6:42 AM
Hugh commented "Fred cover your eyes here! But it was just so vast and there was so very much. We were exhausted. It was too much. And after a while, we just were exhausted from all the treasures."
Quite true, but the same applies to most of the world's Really Large Museums (e.g., Metropolitan Museum of Art). To prevent exhaustion, I recommend Art Buchwald's "The Six-Minute Louvre" (http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+six+minute+Louvre.-a03453390) as a visitor's guide.
OTOH, you can just choose to visit a SINGLE area of the museum: when I was a little kid, I spent hours in the Egyptian collection at the Louvre (yes, my family thought it was weird).
Hugh added: "And the Mona Lisa was tiny. I always thought it would be huge." Hugh, you're a big guy, so you expect everything great to be in your image. But some really nice things, such as the Mona Lisa, are smaller ;-) What I hate is the bullet-proof glass protecting it.
Warmest regards,
Fred
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Subject: Re: Close and Personal With Your Digital Treasures - Thoughts?
In reading this RAIN, it brought back a discussion I had with a potential client. Their concern was that FIRELOCK not list them as a user on our web site. They did not want their collection known in the wide world. (Bad people live there.)
I explained that many of our clients have us sign non-disclosure statements. This made them happy for a moment. Then they had concern about someone breaking into my office and stealing the vault design files. I explained that these are CAD files which we cannot store natively on our office computers and we explained an archiving program for files after the vault is installed. (passwords, encryption, etc.)
One of the disappointing things to FIRELOCK is that many of our clients request that we never mention that they are a client.
If owners of remarkable collections display their work on line in a public forum, is that a security risk to the collection and to the value of the artifacts?
We have built vaults in Museums which then offered a Virtual Tour of the Museum. These sites explain that only 10% of the collection is ever displayed and multiple visits would be required over years to see everything. (This then encourages people to get up from their computer and visit museums.) So their actual assets are vaulted and only certain themes are displayed at scheduled times. They control their own servers and can use the servers to develop traffic by teasing at the whole collection. They have donors and sponsors of the museum that are drawn to that museum by the special ability to develop a relationship with the collections.
If smaller museums and owners of special collections allow their collections to enter the public domain, is the specialness of their collection diminished? Just as MP3's allowed the theft of copyrighted music and the music industry with lots of money to defend themselves, has failed to truly put the genie back in that lamp. The artist has lost creative control.
If small but valuable collections are exposed to the general public, will that make them more vulnerable to theft? Peter's post made me wonder; is giving away control of the digital rights already diminishing the value of the collection? Parsing the display is how you create interest.
Example: My wife and I took every cent we had (skimping on the wedding) so that we could go to Europe. We visited Museum after Museum and all the great Cathedrals and when we arrived in Paris we arrived at the Crown Jewel, La Louvre´ and we found ourselves running around to see the great works.
Fred cover your eyes here! But it was just so vast and there was so very much. We were exhausted. It was too much. And after a while, we just were exhausted from all the treasures. And the Mona Lisa was tiny. I always thought it would be huge.
Part of being a treasure is to be unique and to be experienced individually. I think the Internet ruins that. It makes the greatest treasure just another image. It is all too easily accessed. I have seen countless images of the Declaration of Independence, I once saw it in a Pizza commercial. But to stand in the National Archive building and view it behind the protective glass is a near religious experience. I doubt Zepheira will provide a similar experience. People will think they have experienced art and artifact when they have not. Treasures require rarity, and effort to view them and focus at the crowning moment. The Internet is not conducive to that.
Remember the scene from Indiana Jones where they are wheeling "The Arc of the Covenant" back into a massive warehouse filled with crates of other treasures. Will Zepheira cause great treasures to be wheeled into warehouses because we can view it online?
Maybe our archivists can speak to the effect Virtual Museum displays have on the museum traffic?
Hugh Smith
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