In the straw poll, Steve Dietz asked "what does this mean?".

This is an assertion that responsibility for documentation of collections belongs to the museum, not the university. It is a response to what we believe is a misapplied analogy by universities that they provide "archival" access to publications so they insist on being able to retain serials issued by publishers, for example, after their electronic license has expired. We believe that the analogy is wrong on two counts: 1) the AMICO library is more like a database which, if your license to it expires, is removed from your campus, than it is like a journal whether print or electronic. 2) the museums are not at all like publishers. They are themselves curators and research institutions, like the university, with an on-going commitment to the care and documentation of their collections. Hence, if scholars require access to the objects and their documentation, the museum is the custodian of them and has responsibility (in perpetuity?). The university does not have an obligation to scholarship nor a right to serve as the archive for the data. David