[Open-education] [OER] Wellcome Library: 100, 000 high resolution images (CC BY) of manuscripts, paintings, etchings, early photography, and advertisements

Wed Jan 22 09:22:42 UTC 2014

That's great news :)

Qaisra R. Jaswal 
Lahore, Pakistan

On Wednesday, 22 January 2014, 11:13, Jane Ross <source21 at telus.net> wrote:

This is very good news! Thank you.

The Wellcome Library will be a tremendous resource for individuals and 
organizations that are outside of higher education, industry and other sources 
of readily-available information.

Best regards

 Jane Ross, PhD. President
Association for 
Life-wide Living (ALL) of Alberta
Battle River Bus – Battle River Writing 
Centre
T: 780/672-9315
E: 
source21 at telus.net

Inspiring creativity for health 
through our landscape, our communities and the arts. 
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Subject: [OER] Wellcome Library: 100, 000 high resolution images (CC 
BY) of manuscripts, paintings, etchings, early photography, and 
advertisements
  In case you missed this good news.

Cable

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Joris Pekel <jpekel at gmail.com>
Date: 21 January 2014 
13:03
Subject: [OpenGLAM] Wellcome
To: "open-glam at lists.okfn.org" <open-glam at lists.okfn.org>

Dear 
all,  

For those of 
you not on Twitter, yesterday the Wellcome Library announced yesterday that 
they have made over 100,000 high resolution images of manuscripts, paintings, 
etchings, early photography, and advertisements available using a CC-BY 
license.

http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2014/01/thousands-of-years-of-visual-culture-made-free-through-wellcome-images/

The images are 
of really high quality and many great treasures in general to be found. See for 
some highlights the selection made by the Public Domain Review. The 
article says: 

"This move by the Wellcome is yet another recent example of a hugely 
respected institution releasing digitisations of its public domain content under 
an open license – with the last 6 months seeing The Getty and The British 
Library making similar moves. It’s a really promising sign of a more general 
shift toward opening up public domain content that we’ve seen taking place in 
the cultural sector over the last couple of years. Wonderful stuff!"

http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/01/20/selection-from-wellcome-librarys-release-of-100k-openly-licensed-images/

Enjoy! 
Joris
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