[meteorite-list] An Opportunity For Public Service, Profit, and Publicity

[Paul H]

While looking around on the Internet, I 
found an opportunitye for the meteorite 
community to do a public service and, at
the same time possibly profit for their 
contributions.

This ooportunity exists at the "Earth 
Science World ImageBank" at:

http://www.earthscienceworld.org/imagebank/

"The Earth Science World ImageBank is a 
service provided by the American Geological 
Institute (AGI). This ImageBank is designed 
to provide quality geoscience images to the 
public, educators, and the geoscience 
community."

First, the meteorite community could do a 
public service by submitting representative 
pictures of meteorites, tektites, impactites, 
impact craters, meteorite thin sections, 
and anything else related to meteorites. As 
far as I found this database has only one 
picture of a meteorite and no images of 
tektites. It would certainly would be a 
public service to contribute pictures of 
meteorites and related items, which can be 
used for educational purposes. I am using 
the word "contribute" because the person 
submitting the pictures still retains 
copyright on it and can still require a 
fee for any commercial use.

It would be a public service if a collection 
of meteorite photographs could be submitted 
to this web site that included an example 
of each different type of meteorite and a 
selection of pictures of historically 
important falls. Also, pictures of craters, 
meteorites as they are found in the field, 
impactites, shocked belenmites, shocked 
quartz, etc. would be an important 
contribution.

Second, one feature of the image data bank 
is that a person can permit the free use 
of their images for specific educational 
purposes and, yet, require people, who want 
to use an image for commercial purposes, 
pay them a set fee for each use of one of
their images. Thus, not only can a person 
perform a public service by providing 
images of meteorites, impact craters,
impactites, tektites, thin sections, and 
so forth, they also can profit from an 
image in the database, if someone wants 
to use it for commercial purposes.

Finally, the people on this list should 
note that the name of the person or company 
hdoling teh copyright is displayed in the 
database. This gives them some free publicity. 
Also, if an image is used for educational 
purposes, the database requests that the 
proper credit be given to it. Again, the 
contributors will get some more free 
publicity whenever their image is used. 

For details of how to contribute, go to:

http://www.earthscienceworld.org/imagebank/submit/index.html

"The Earth Science World ImageBank is 
always looking to collect more high-
quality geoscience images for this 
growing collection. The primary mission 
of the ESWIB is to provide these images 
to educators, the geoscience community, 
and the public for non-commercial use. 
Your contribution and assistance in 
helping us develop this lasting resource 
will not only benefit the scientific 
community, but also help to enhance 
Earth System education."

Best Regards,

Paul
Baton Rouge, LA



		
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