2009/7/18 Yann Forget <[email protected]>: > geni wrote: >> 2009/7/18 Durova <[email protected]>: >>> Put me in touch with instructors at art schools and I'll incorporate >>> restoration into their curriculum. You'll be surprised how scaleable this >>> is, particularly if we work out exhibition opportunities. >>> >>> -Durova >> >> Restoration isn't the problem for the most part. The English part of >> the National Monuments Record contains about 10 million items (mostly >> photos I think). Wales and Scotland ad few million more. >> >> That includes a fairly complete public domain aerial survey of the UK >> from the 1940s. >> >> We do not have the capacity to support digitalization on that scale. > > Well, who's your "we"? > > In the case of the NPG, it is quite clear that the cost of the > digitalization is small compared with the potential benefit. > There are people and organisations willing to pay to have a copy of > these famous portraits. The issue is how to collect the funds without > puting a copyright on the images. For this, we need a new business > model. Think about how donations was raised to free up Blender.[1] > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blender_(software)#History
€100,000 is not a significant amount of money when dealing with trying to digitalize the various UK archives. -- geni _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
