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| May 06, 2008 | Thomas, Kim | COPYRIGHT 2008 Incisive Media, published with the permission of Incisive Media. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Kim Thomas

Digital Images

in Education: Realising the Vision

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The advent of digital photography and electronic storage media has led to a worldwide proliferation of digital images. It is now extremely simple to create, store, manipulate and distribute images electronically.

Although this provides clear benefits, particularly in the field of education, it also brings a number of headaches, to do with questions of copyright, indexing and archiving, among others. All these stand in the way of the "vision" of the title: to provide the UK education community with "long term access to the digital image resources that it needs, in a variety of convenient, flexible and easy-to-use ways".

To address the issue of how to bring this about, the Joint Information

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