The Museum Educational Site Licensing Project

The MESL project is a collaboration of seven collecting institutions and seven universities, defining the terms and conditions for the educational use of digitized museum images and related information. MESL participants are developing a model educational site license, testing and evaluating procedures for the collection and distribution of museums' digital images and information, and assessing the impact of this distribution, in both technical and economic terms.

At the end of this experiment, which will run for two-academic years (until June 1997) the participants will propose a broadly-based system that could support ongoing distribution and educational use of museum images and text.

About MESL

Background information including MESL's goals and objectives, the original calls for participation, meeting reports, and the general project mailing list archives.

Working Groups

Specific information about the activities of the MESL working groups.

• Base Measurement
• Communications and World Wide Web
• Content Selection
• Documentation and Distribution
• Economics of Information
• Evaluation
• Faculty Training and Support
• Security and Monitoring of Use
• Terms and Conditions

MESL Participants

A list of the organizations participating in MESL including management committee, museums and universities.

Related Resources

Readings and resources relevant to the work of MESL, collected from around the Internet.

URL: http://www.ahip.getty.edu/mesl/