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Thursday, March 03, 2005

More on OA to digitized cultural heritage objects

In an Archivalia posting today, Klaus Graf criticizes the Weimarer Empfehlungen zur Herstellung von und zum Umgang mit Digitalisaten aus Nachlässen in Archiven und Bibliotheken (Weimar Recommendations for the Production and Distribution of Digitized Cultural Heritage Objects from Archives and Libraries, June 2004) for misunderstanding open access and especially the Berlin Declaration on Open Access, which it cites. The Weimar recommendations encourage free online dissemination of digital copies, but do not encourage copying, redistribution or other uses without permission of the digitizers.