On 25 November 2015 at 10:36, Tanya Gray Jones
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> Later in the day I came across an extensive 'born digital' collection of images with associated metadata of wild species and natural history objects, that together form a virtual field guide to UK biodiversity: http://www.bioimages.org.uk/.
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> I asked the creator of the collection, Malcolm Storey, if he had considered donating the collection to a museum at some point, and he said that from his experience there was little interest in an image collection.
More than 99% of the images are under a CC By-NC-SA licence, If
Malcolm is willing to drop the "NC" restriction, Wikimedia Commons
would accept that part of the collection, and make it available -
effectively - in perpetuity.
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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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