[Foundation-l] National Portrait Gallery

[geni]

2009/7/18 Yann Forget <yann at forget-me.net>:
> geni wrote:
>> 2009/7/18 Durova <nadezhda.durova at gmail.com>:
>>> 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.


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geni