Dien Rice
May 19, 2011, 12:35 PM
The important thing is that it will also be in the public domain!
Why is this important? If it is really in the public domain, that means that these images can be used to create commercial products, or to include them as part of commercial products...
Read more here...
http://opac.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=8544
As the web page says...
"The goal of the new policy is to make high quality digital images of Yale's vast cultural heritage collections in the public domain openly and freely available."
Note also that, due to the vastness of its collection...
"The massive University-wide digitization effort will take many years to complete, but advantages will be immediate, she notes"
http://sowpub.com/dien/grandcanyon.jpg
(A photo of the grand canyon and clouds (http://discover.odai.yale.edu/ydc/Record/1688431), from the Yale collection...)
Best wishes,
Dien
Why is this important? If it is really in the public domain, that means that these images can be used to create commercial products, or to include them as part of commercial products...
Read more here...
http://opac.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=8544
As the web page says...
"The goal of the new policy is to make high quality digital images of Yale's vast cultural heritage collections in the public domain openly and freely available."
Note also that, due to the vastness of its collection...
"The massive University-wide digitization effort will take many years to complete, but advantages will be immediate, she notes"
http://sowpub.com/dien/grandcanyon.jpg
(A photo of the grand canyon and clouds (http://discover.odai.yale.edu/ydc/Record/1688431), from the Yale collection...)
Best wishes,
Dien
