[Foundation-l] GLAM-WIKI report

[John at Darkstar]

I stumbled upon this too during discussions with institutions in Norway,
it seems like the number of times some material is accessed is a very
interesting selling point. It is although not necessary to store the
image any specific place for this, it is the actual statistics that is
interesting.

John

Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> Hoi,
> Not necessarily. One acronym I learned was KPI, when a GLAM has as a key
> performance indicator the number of times a picture is actually accessed, it
> may affect the amount of subsidy they get. There is no reason why an image
> cannot be made available to the people who want that image on their hard
> drive.
> 
> So I mean really there may be more to it.
> Thanks,
>       GerardM
> 
> 2009/8/12 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>
> 
>> 2009/8/12 Kat Walsh <kat at mindspillage.org>:
>>
>>> I'm not sure what the technical challenges you had in mind are, but I
>>> can think of plenty of reasons to argue against hotlinking and I don't
>>> want to let the point slip by. A few:
>>
>> The ones who want hotlinking want it as a way of making the images not
>> free. l mean, really.
>>
>>
>> - d.
>>
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