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https://iiif.io/get-started/talks/ Cool, although each museum hosting individually and encoraging direct linking means people won't have backups so if one of these small museums goes down, all the links go down. It'd be cool if they had a copy, or stored globally with all the high powered funding

(Even if it's stored in a backup place, the direct links mean if the DNS/server lapses, it all goes down?)

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Self hosting is critical: these organizations’ reputations are on the line and they don’t want to be beholden to an outside company for access to their collections.

There are a number of preservation service and networks available, but cost is a big factor there since it’s hard enough to get funding for your own connections much less those of others, especially if the material isn’t in the public domain. I do think IIIF helps there, too, because it would let sites like IA recognize that they can download the biggest available image for a web page when they archive it. That’s not professional digital preservation level in many cases (smaller, lossy compression) but it might be the best you can get in some cases.

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