Am I the only person who is bothered by this very common arrangement -- we can link to the images on the BAV site but we *cannot* incorporate the images (unless we get all the permissions to do this, and that is no easy task) into our own sites? That is: we have to use their viewer; so we cannot do anything else with the images we might want (e.g., enhance them in various ways; or link them dynamically to transcripts a la T-Pen so we can see text overlaid on the image, etc.
I think there are really strong arguments in favour of libraries etc NOT trying to maintain this hold over the images. It will make scholarship based on the images increasingly difficult.
Peter
Peter Robinson
Honorary Research Fellow, ITSEE, University of Birmingham, UK
Bateman Professor of English
9 Campus Drive, University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon SK S7N 5A5, Canada