Hi Mike
Re: ' I suspect the (slightly depressing) reason that Silverlight is attractive to
Museums is that it *prevents* download of big images'
This isn't why we chose to use Silverlight, but there is of course some truth in
the fact that we feel we have to protect our large images - income generation
is becoming increasingly important and the Pre-Raphaelite images do make
money for Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery.
However, for me this project has been about making the images accessible.
We signed a JISC licence agreement (which some other projects funded by
JISC Digitisation were unable to do), the resource is free to use (again not
true of all projects). The images can be used by schools, higher education and
further education students and employees for uses connected with education -
I hope they will be used in teaching, course work, etc. Of course they will be
used in many other ways to, because as you know once on the web...
I feel like the website has freed the images in the Pre-Raphaelite collection up,
not locked them down.
Linda
Linda Spurdle
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery
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