On 21/11/2007, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
"There are indeed, some amazing images. I definitely believe that publishers could use this resource if they're in need of (one more image) to complete an existing project. But I'm uncertain about how publishable much of the content is, especially in the absence of higher resolution files (which disqualifies printing). "
So although our works are usually sufficient for web use, it seems clear that we cannot present ourselves as a serious kind of archivist, culture-recording project, without introducing a RAW format and encouraging people to use it.
Careful not to jump two steps there :-)
We mainly don't have higher resolution image files because people aren't uploading high-resolution image files to start with, not because the high-resolution JPGs or TIFFs which we have Just Aren't Good Enough(TM).
(Do we allow TIFFs?)
Allowing the upload of RAW files would certainly be a good thing (if we have the capacity, which I assume we do), but it'll probably mean that our high-end stuff gets better, not that we make substantially more content publishable.