[Foundation-l] National Portrait Gallery

[David Goodman]

The problem is in sustaining the less used part of the collection,
which from an archival standpoint and also ultimate cultural value is
equally important.  Normally, any such institution would expect to use
the profits from the ones that sell most to support the others--[[The
long tail]].

This is analogous to the principle that it is easy to finance a
library of best-sellers--any town can do it, but only the very richest
organizations can afford a library that includes everything that might
be needed.

David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG



On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Yann Forget<yann at forget-me.net> wrote:
> geni wrote:
>> 2009/7/18 Yann Forget <yann at forget-me.net>:
>>> 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.
>
> Comparing the amount raised for a single (quite obscure) software with
> what could be raised to digitalize world-famous works of art does not
> make sense.
>
> Yann
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