[Foundation-l] About that "sue and be damned" to the NationalPortrait Gallery ...

[Dan Collins]

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 5:22 AM, Robert Rohde<rarohde at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 2:11 AM, Tom Maaswinkel<tom.maaswinkel at 12wiki.eu> wrote:
>> The part I am talking about is the part where they say that they want to
>> talk to the Wikimedia Fundation to have a discussion about making
>> low-resolution images of paintings in its collection available!
>
> Incidentally, the NPG appears to have removed the zoomify feature from
> their website (or at least it wasn't present on the sample of images I
> looked at).  As a result, it would appear that WMF presently has more
> detailed images on Commons than are available in any form on NPG's
> website.  In the typical case, our images appear to be 3 or 4 times
> larger in linear dimension than the largest view they currently make
> available.
>
> -Robert Rohde
>
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I don't suppose anyone has a mirror of our copies, just in case
Foundation decides to comply with NPG's demands (a long shot, for
sure)? Probably be best to make sure this information isn't lost,
especially since NPG has now made the high-res images unavailable to
anyone.

--Dan