Comments on: Self-preservation and the National Portrait Gallery’s dispute with the Wikimedia community http://ragesoss.com/blog/2009/07/16/self-preservation-and-the-national-portrait-gallerys-dispute-with-the-wikimedia-community/ assorted blogging by Sage Ross Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:26:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: pfctdayelise http://ragesoss.com/blog/2009/07/16/self-preservation-and-the-national-portrait-gallerys-dispute-with-the-wikimedia-community/comment-page-1/#comment-166 pfctdayelise Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:24:23 +0000 http://ragesoss.com/blog/?p=142#comment-166 You and I would choose to wait, but institutions face pressure from their purse-holders and peers to be making ever-ongoing progress on the digitisation front.<br /><br />Wait until cultural institutions receive the government funding they need... hah!! Sounds like waiting for hell to freeze over. You and I would choose to wait, but institutions face pressure from their purse-holders and peers to be making ever-ongoing progress on the digitisation front.

Wait until cultural institutions receive the government funding they need… hah!! Sounds like waiting for hell to freeze over.

]]> By: David Gerard http://ragesoss.com/blog/2009/07/16/self-preservation-and-the-national-portrait-gallerys-dispute-with-the-wikimedia-community/comment-page-1/#comment-164 David Gerard Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:55:22 +0000 http://ragesoss.com/blog/?p=142#comment-164 Yes. It struck me as fairly obvious bureaucratic empire building.<br /><br />What's worse is that the NPG is not even an independent charity - it's a <i>government sub-department</i>. Letters to ministers time! Yes. It struck me as fairly obvious bureaucratic empire building.

What's worse is that the NPG is not even an independent charity – it's a government sub-department. Letters to ministers time!

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