Image repository at the Wellcome Trust

Good news – The Wellcome Trust have agreed to act as the primary repository for the scanned images. We have had some discussion about where the images would be most likely to be discovered by users. The Wellcome Trust have a very large repository of biomedical images, and seemed the most likely place that people would search for this type of image. However, they have had nothing of this size before. After some discussions with their acquisition manager (Emily Doyle) and technical staff, it appears that they can handle the large size images that we have – up to 3Gbyte per image. The plan is to transfer the image set from hard disc, once the set is finalised. It will probably take several hours to make this data transfer.