[Clipart] Old Books with illustrations

[Ryan]

There is a wiki page that covers some of the sites that we are actively
mining from - http://openclipart.org/wiki/Clipart_Acquisition 

Cheers,

ryanlerch

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Phillips [mailto:jon at rejon.org]
> Sent: Thursday, 26 April 2007 9:10 AM
> To: Russell Ossendryver
> Cc: Ryan; Clipart List
> Subject: Re: [Clipart] Old Books with illustrations
> 
> On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 18:59 -0400, Russell Ossendryver wrote:
> > Great link.
> >
> > The http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/ also scan pic of old
> > books, They say the images are Public Domian but have terms for
> > commercial uses?
> >
> > On 4/25/07, Ryan <ryan at lennox.com.au> wrote:
> > > Thanks for the link Ted! Some of those piccies are pretty good...
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > ryanlerch
> 
> Ryan, how are we tracking these resources again? We should add and then
> divide and conquer these :)
> 
> Jon
> 
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: clipart-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org [mailto:clipart-
> > > > bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Ted Gould
> > > > Sent: Thursday, 26 April 2007 2:39 AM
> > > > To: Clipart List
> > > > Subject: [Clipart] Old Books with illustrations
> > > >
> > > > Hey everyone,
> > > >
> > > > I got an e-mail with Liam Quin's signature:
> > > >
> > > > --- Start Sig ---
> > > > Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/
> > > > Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/
> > > > Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org www.advogato.org
> > > > --- End Sig ---
> > > >
> > > > Which has an interesting site that he works on with pictures from
> old
> > > > books.  TONS of really neat illustrations.  These should be out of
> > > > copyright, so they are prime candidates for vectorization.
> > > >
> > > >               --Ted
> > > >
> > > > PS - Probably should have put the sig markers in XML considering
> who's
> > > > sig it is ;)
> > >
> > >
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