29th January 2013, 10:59 AM
Unitof1 Wrote:But then who comes and pays anything for it, old fasioned things like books and pictures? Are you doubling your money, that kind of thing, break even, even, cause if your not then all the hidding behind its an smr or her which we all know isnt stautory
RCAHMS are very focused on revenue streams from publications and rights from images (which much more than books is the way forward) which is partly driven from their management of SCRAN (an image library) and reflected in their commercialisation of their world-wide historic aerial image library they hold. Indeed some have accused RCAHMS of being overly focused on generating revenue from sales, but they certainly put substantive effort into the commercial side and indeed combat piracy of their images (shutting down a facebook page reproducing images that had their copyright). So the last thing RCAHMS could be accused of was hiding behind their archives hoping no one notices the public monies they receive. The question is really how well this balance of making public thumbnails of all the resources available but charging for commercial use will survive in the post merger HS/RCAHMS body.