Separate
tools: seems like the best, most
flexible approach but barriers include
-
agreements with content owners,
- fear of
copyright abuse,
- loss of
revenue (esp. for museums)
Barriers
have driven large commercial collections to impose restrictions; owners of
personal coll. have some reservations
Baby
steps:
- Luna:
XML gateway for access to metadata, thumbnails, medium sized images; for use
in LMS, web pages, metasearch
- Export
to PPT, HTML (in Luna, image size depends on permissions)
- ARTstor:
must use their viewer [if you are not satisfied with the size of the
downloadable images] and bring other images into it (how easy will this be?)
- AP Photo
Archive: can download jpg with text
-LionShare: more open but with options to restrict
-
Process
for user is different depending on the image source.
Image
quality is variable once it leaves its native environment.