Dallas Museum of Art Receives $9 Million Gift, Will Digitize Entire Collection and Make Available Under Open Access
From the Dallas Morning News:
The Dallas Museum of Art on Tuesday announced an anonymous $9 million gift to ensure that regular admission remains free and that the museum’s permanent collection will be fully available online.
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$5 million will go to complete the digitization of the museum’s collection of 22,000 objects, by far the largest in North Texas, and create a platform for its universal, free access.
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From the Museum’s Announcement
The DMA will release all images, data, and software it creates to the public under Open Access licenses for free personal and educational use.
Filed under: Data Files, Digital Preservation, News, Open Access
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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