Hello everyone,

Like many archives we are currently investigating ways of making money from our material and trying to weigh up whether we try to do something inhouse or externally hosted. One of the things that sprang to mind was that since we already run an online catalogue via Adlib (which is soon to get a long awaited upgrade) was there any way to tie in a purchase system with it. For example, we already display low grade images on the OPAC and then people have to contact us to buy a hi-res version, is there any easy way to enable them to go from the low res thumbnail through a shopping cart to enable downloading of the hi-res without having to contact us?

Is anyone doing or experimenting with such a thing or have you considered it and rejected it?

Any thoughts on the issue gratefully received.

Regards

Pamela Birch
Conservator/Premises & Projects Officer

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