Museums On Line aims to be a leading company in the business of licensing high-quality electronic images. Its high-resolution image software for digitising, marking and marketing digital images on the Web is fully compliant with the latest ISO standards. Culturally, the project contributes to the dissemination of work held in museums worldwide, particularly those in Europe. Commercially, Museums On Line is a broker of museum image copyrights and generates fees which it shares with the museums, thus providing them with new sources of revenue. The demonstration at IST 98 will show the world s largest museum catalogue, with a collection of some 200,000 images.
Visitors can see a gallery of images viewable at different resolution levels.
Museums On Line is demonstrating what it believes to be the world s best navigator for museum Web surfing. There is also an on-line museum shop.