Many SMRs have assembled photographic collections, often based around
aerial photographs from their own surveys and/or those of national,
regional and local organisations and individuals. The national library
of air photographs at Swindon and the Cambridge University collection
are perhaps the two major sources. However, in most, if not all, cases
these collections have not yet been digitised, owing to a lack of
resources and suitable computing facilities, but a change is
beginning. This is a result of the advent of external funding sources (see
2.4), the increasing emphasis on
e-government and electronic delivery of services, and the availability
of cheaper means of storing vast digital archives. As a result, the
next few years should see a substantial growth in the amount and range
of SMR collections available to users.
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