I am also in favor of good standards and agree that there should be credit or links (whichever is appropriate).
But...
Unfortunately, the viewer for the Visconti Hours does not show folio numbers (fortunately most of them do). I suppose one could count down through the thumbnails, but I don't have enough extra time to do that and others might not either.
Sometimes I find images of interest on sites that don't credit them. I usually look for the original source, but I can't always find it. I have numerous blogs that are mostly written, but unfinished because I am missing an important image (that I can't re-locate) or because I found an image on a site that has no credit or link to the original, so I cannot verify the date or authenticity and even though it might be important, I am reluctant to use it.
Also, I did not keep shelf numbers for many of the items I collected between 2007 and 2015 (and even some of the ones beyond that). I wasn't aware that I would be communicating with other researchers, I was just trying to learn (and to solve the VMS).
Even after I started blogging, I only saved shelf numbers for topics I thought I might blog about, not for items that I screensnapped for personal reference as reminders or as learning tools.
Then the forum starts and we talk about topics I never expected to communicate about (or which I didn't realize right away would be relevant) and here I am with a terrabyte of files with no shelf marks.
I do try to look them up if it's something of special importance, but it's sometimes hard to find them again.
But...
Unfortunately, the viewer for the Visconti Hours does not show folio numbers (fortunately most of them do). I suppose one could count down through the thumbnails, but I don't have enough extra time to do that and others might not either.
Sometimes I find images of interest on sites that don't credit them. I usually look for the original source, but I can't always find it. I have numerous blogs that are mostly written, but unfinished because I am missing an important image (that I can't re-locate) or because I found an image on a site that has no credit or link to the original, so I cannot verify the date or authenticity and even though it might be important, I am reluctant to use it.
Also, I did not keep shelf numbers for many of the items I collected between 2007 and 2015 (and even some of the ones beyond that). I wasn't aware that I would be communicating with other researchers, I was just trying to learn (and to solve the VMS).
Even after I started blogging, I only saved shelf numbers for topics I thought I might blog about, not for items that I screensnapped for personal reference as reminders or as learning tools.
Then the forum starts and we talk about topics I never expected to communicate about (or which I didn't realize right away would be relevant) and here I am with a terrabyte of files with no shelf marks.
I do try to look them up if it's something of special importance, but it's sometimes hard to find them again.