<div dir="ltr">Thanks Owen! The Natural History Museum did this with their <a href="https://data.nhm.ac.uk/?_ga=2.238260164.53692689.1588158237-150062690.1588158237">Data Portal</a> as they were building it. Thanks to Andy Mabbet for letting us know that high-res images of their specimens are now being uploaded  on <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Digital_Collections_Programme,_Natural_History_Museum,_London">Commons</a>. I'm an advocate for getting their bee specimens on Commons if anyone wants to give that a go :)</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 at 11:44, Owen Blacker <<a href="mailto:owen@blacker.me.uk">owen@blacker.me.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">That it's a non-commercial licence is really disappointing, but that's still a little better than nothing…<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2020/04/28/british-museum-makes-1-9-million-images-available-for-free/" target="_blank">https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2020/04/28/british-museum-makes-1-9-million-images-available-for-free/</a>  <br></div><div><br></div><div><p style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:1.1em;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Varela Round",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(85,85,85)">The British Museum has revamped its online collections database, making over 1.9 million photos of its collection available for free online under a Creative Commons license.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:1.1em;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Varela Round",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:1.6em 0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(85,85,85)">Under the new agreement the majority of the 1.9 million images are being made available for anyone to use for free under a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/" style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(255,69,0);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">Creative Commons 4.0 license</a>. Users no longer need to register to use these photographs, and can now download them directly from the British Museum.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:1.1em;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Varela Round",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:1.6em 0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(85,85,85)">Under the terms of the Creative Commons license, you are free to share and adapt the images for non-commercial use, but must include a credit to the British Museum.</p>[continues]<div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#666666"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">-- <br>Owen Blacker, London GB<br></span><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><a href="http://twitter.com/owenblacker" target="_blank">@owenblacker</a></span></div></span></font></div></div></div></div>
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