Comments on: Let’s dump out all the crayons and make a mess or How long would it take to get at all the cool digital stuff our libraries have? http://dhlib2012.thatcamp.org/11/03/lets-dump-out-all-the-crayons-and-make-a-mess-or-how-long-would-it-take-to-get-at-all-the-cool-digital-stuff-our-libraries-have/ The Humanities and Technology Camp Wed, 07 Nov 2012 20:30:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 By: Matthew Mariner http://dhlib2012.thatcamp.org/11/03/lets-dump-out-all-the-crayons-and-make-a-mess-or-how-long-would-it-take-to-get-at-all-the-cool-digital-stuff-our-libraries-have/#comment-520 Sat, 03 Nov 2012 05:50:23 +0000 http://dhlib2012.thatcamp.org/?p=358#comment-520 I love this idea!

Why not make all our hi-res images easily downloadable? I would have never heard of the Rijksmuseum has it not been for the work they’ve done to expose and share fabulous images of their holdings. And downloading them doesn’t kill the experience of viewing the physical art, it just makes me envious of visitors who actually get to go. Digitization drives patronage, it doesn’t drive it away.

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