On 1 August 2012 14:24, Andrew Gray <andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk> wrote: > > Note, incidentally, that there must be some interesting overlap > between this and Old Bailey Online, which will document many of the > trials that preceded the hangings. > > http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t18120513-5-person102 - > for example, is also covered in Cotton.
True, but their licensing conditions (http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/static/Legal-info.jsp) are incompatible with ours, so they are unlikely to make good partners for us. >> What's the possibility of WMUK buying the book for £5,000, scanning it >> to Commons, then selling the book privately or to a dealer to recover >> most of the money spent? > > I suspect that we would be unlikely to get more than half that were we > to sell it direct to a dealer, and goodness only knows if we were to > sell it privately. It's a bit of a gamble with donor funds! You're probably right, I'm afraid. Another idea. How about starting a public appeal to raise the money to buy the book with the intention to donate it to the BL or some other worthy institution, on the condition that they make high resolution scans available under an acceptable license. That way we get lots of good publicity, we're not gambling with money donors might not have wanted us to spend in this way, and we don't have to invest in a professional quality book scanner. Andrew _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
