Some good ideas, thank you. I will forward them on to Malcolm.
Andy, I considered Wikimedia Commons. In Wikimedia Commons, is there a way to search for images by source, such that there is an entry point into a set of images that originate from a specific collection?
Tanya
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Subject: Re: donation of 'born digital' collections
Hello all
You could also try an archive or special collections library. Archivists generally store collections which contains copyrighted material.
Tracy Deakin
Archivist
St John's College, Cambridge
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> On 27 Nov 2015, at 20:04, Andy Mabbett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> On 25 November 2015 at 10:36, Tanya Gray Jones
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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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.
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> 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
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