I stumbled upon this too during discussions with institutions in Norway, it seems like the number of times some material is accessed is a very interesting selling point. It is although not necessary to store the image any specific place for this, it is the actual statistics that is interesting.
John Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > Not necessarily. One acronym I learned was KPI, when a GLAM has as a key > performance indicator the number of times a picture is actually accessed, it > may affect the amount of subsidy they get. There is no reason why an image > cannot be made available to the people who want that image on their hard > drive. > > So I mean really there may be more to it. > Thanks, > GerardM > > 2009/8/12 David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> > >> 2009/8/12 Kat Walsh <k...@mindspillage.org>: >> >>> I'm not sure what the technical challenges you had in mind are, but I >>> can think of plenty of reasons to argue against hotlinking and I don't >>> want to let the point slip by. A few: >> >> The ones who want hotlinking want it as a way of making the images not >> free. l mean, really. >> >> >> - d. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
