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NY Public Library Releases 670k Images
- Kovah 11y agoFYI: about 190k of these pictures are public domain respectively without known copyright protection. Link for searching these pictures: http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?utf8=%E2%9C%93&keywords=&filters%5Brights%5D=pd http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?utf8=%E2%9C%...
- Amorymeltzer 11y agoPreviously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10850456 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10850456
- Ensorceled 11y agoI was originally trying to figure out if these images were HUGE (670K >>> 4K) or compressed beyond recognition ...
- Kovah 11y agoI just downloaded about 10 images from different topics and all of them are available as .tiff and 8/10 with a resolution of >2000px
- Ensorceled 11y agoRight, but that would be 2K. Anyway, was just an observation that, at least my brain, doesn't see 'k' as a count when attached to images but as a size.
- FrankyHollywood 11y agoVery nice! I also liked "documenting America". Photo's about American life between 1935 and 1944. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/fsa/documentingamerica.html http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/fsa/documentingameric...
- CIPHERSTONE 11y agoAwesome, just wish the viewer was better. Like being able to click on the right or left hand side of the photo you are viewing to go to the next one would be a real treat. #Lazy
- unfocused 11y agoYou can even order prints. Seems like a good way for the library to make extra money. I wonder just how much profit they would make though. As for downloading the images, take this one (http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/70925be8-ec11-c85b-e040-e00a18062dd1 http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/70925be8-ec11-c85b-...) for example. I find it bizarre why the 3 options I have are: 1. 11KB in size (jpg 300px) 2. 61KB in size (jpg 760px) 3. 81MB in size (tiff 4884 × 5572 pixels) They could save some bandwidth and disk space if they didn't jump straigh to an 81MB tiff. Maybe some 1k px or 2k px? I'm not a photo expert but I wonder why they made the decision. EDIT: Looks like my view of download options are available differs picture to picture. Some do have extra options, some don't.
- vijayr 11y agoAnyone using these to build interesting visualizations or applications?
- nonword 11y agohttp://publicdomain.nypl.org/ http://publicdomain.nypl.org/ is a good starting point for exploring some of the projects and research around these collections.