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> Colleagues,
>
> Some time ago I responded as follows to a posting from Robin Murphy:
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> >I'm not sure what Robin means "seems as though the standards are already
set".
> >
> >Standards for what?  For leasing or selling rights to the use of museum
images
> >to commerical concerns? (Continuum, Luna, etc..........
 
I don't think I ever responded to Squigles' reply to my reply. It
would seem to me if the Library of Congress is spending 100 Trillion
dollars (or something like that) to put their collection online that
whatever protocols they are using would become defacto standards
because of the corporations that are backing the project (Microsoft,
Metromedia, etc.). As long as everyone is working toward open
standards I don't see a big problem. Making museum collections
available to the public is the goal.
 
BTW: The Dallas Museum now has a Web site:
http://www.unt.edu/dfw/dma/www/dma.htm
 
 
> Suzanne Quigley, from Detroit where it's about 5 degrees and the ice
> crystals on the window are growing in beautiful random designs with tiny
> streetlamps sparkling in each facet.  [log in to unmask]
 
It's cold in New York City tonight but we don't get poetic about it,
we scream at the landlord for more heat.
 
Robbin Murphy
(did someone mention a job on a yacht in a previous post?)
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