28-02-2021, 10:05 PM
Well, you've got a terminus ante quem of 1 January 2007, which is when ISBN numbers changed from 10 digits to 13.
The Beinecke started a digitalisation programme in 1996 with watermarks, in partnership with IBM.
The MrSids digitalisations were made, without watermarks, in 2004, I understand, and were the first publicly available colour images without watermarks, freely distributed by the Beinecke. Unless anyone knows of an earlier digitalisation?
So... unless it was a custom job - in which case, permission would have been required from the Beinecke to use in a publication - the image on the frontispiece date from 1996 - 2004.
So, possibly, the lack of copyright for the use of the images caused the low profile of this book, if it was pre-2004.
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The Beinecke started a digitalisation programme in 1996 with watermarks, in partnership with IBM.
The MrSids digitalisations were made, without watermarks, in 2004, I understand, and were the first publicly available colour images without watermarks, freely distributed by the Beinecke. Unless anyone knows of an earlier digitalisation?
So... unless it was a custom job - in which case, permission would have been required from the Beinecke to use in a publication - the image on the frontispiece date from 1996 - 2004.
So, possibly, the lack of copyright for the use of the images caused the low profile of this book, if it was pre-2004.
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Quote:Yale University Beinecke Library. The Beineckerare book library is Yale University’s principal reposi-tory for literary papers, early manuscripts, and rarebooks. It also houses the Yale Collections of AmericanLiterature, of German Literature, and of WesternAmericana. These collections support research inmedieval, Renaissance, and 18th-century art; art his-tory and literature; photography; printing history; andmodernism in art and literature. IBM’s work with theBeinecke began in 1996 and has afforded studentsaccess to rare materials by making it easy and inex-pensive to obtain reproductions (see Figure 5). TheBeinecke intends worldwide access but is limiting useto the Yale campus during the first year of digital ser-vices to give itself time to look into intellectual prop-erty issues. The initial focus for digitization was itsphotonegative collection—13,000 monochrome and500 color transparencies. On request, items are pho-tographed and patrons receive a print while the Bei-necke keeps the negatives for later reproduction. Thismethodology creates a user-selected digital collectionrepresenting a broad sample of the library’s holdings.Since this first project, the Beinecke also scanned 80papyri (in color) and 2,000 photographic negativesfrom a Western American photograph collection andis currently scanning 500 illuminated manuscriptfragments.The Beinecke’s property rights concerns are similarto the Vatican Library’s: prevention of reuse of imagesin popular art, protection of the Library’s good name,and possible cost recovery through service fees. Anadditional concern is that part of the Beinecke’s collec-tion is subject to copyrights held by people outsideYale. The only protections (beyond the usual physicalones) the library is using are watermarking and, for thefirst year of service, limiting Internet access to on-cam-pus workstations. The Beinecke has not yet decidedwhether it will use watermarks indefinitely.