[Foundation-l] About that "sue and be damned" to the NationalPortrait Gallery ...
David Gerard
dgerard at gmail.com
Sun Jul 12 14:18:56 UTC 2009
2009/7/12 Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com>:
> 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.
Oh, that's good. "We had to destroy the images to propagate them."
- d.
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