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NY’s Metropolitan Museum of Art releases 375K digital works online via CC0

73 points by dragonbonheur 10y ago

incompatible 10y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13593334 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13593334
- boulos 10y ago
  And I should add: if any of you work at The Met or the Rijksmuseum and want to be in touch about us hosting a CC0 copy of the images, please get in touch! (We've tried to reach out via the emails we could find, but I don't think we've received a response yet).
  - toomuchtodo 10y ago
    While I think its very cool Google would reach out to host a copy, the canonical copy belongs in the Internet Archive. EDIT: No snark intended.
    - boulos 10y ago
      A canonical copy certainly does, but just as folks don't want to keep scraping the Met, I'd prefer that folks who want to do style analysis or color transfer or whatever else, do so with a public dataset in GCS (and S3!).
      - toomuchtodo 10y ago
        I appreciate your efforts to provide such a copy :) Apologies if my parent comment sounded negative, it was not mean to be! A rising tide lifts all boats.
        boulos 10y ago
        Not at all! I'd argue it's extremely clear that if there could be only one allowed copy, it'd be with the Internet archive (and failing that Wikipedia? It's not even the same ballpark, but I think that's second). I've just come around to the "more copies are better" standpoint, especially for different needs.
dataminded 10y ago
Where does one go for a dump of all the images? I'm assuming that they'd rather one not scrape the site.
- toomuchtodo 10y ago
  A dump is not available yet. > The Met collection of CC0 images can be browsed on the new CC Search beta, also announced this morning.
Jerry2 10y ago
I found a series of really nice sketches but the images are only 600x406px [0]. Wish they'd release higher-res images suitable as desktop backgrounds... [0] https://ccsearch.creativecommons.org/image/detail/_UraJxSFDXbrvGcQmMyRsA== https://ccsearch.creativecommons.org/image/detail/_UraJxSFDX...
- chch 10y ago
  If you head over to the Met itself's site for this piece[1], it's available to download in full size, 3693x2501. Also, if you take the URL of the picture on the CC page, you can exchange the "web-large" in the URL for "original" to get the main image. Also, that piece in particular is actually an etching, not a sketch! You can read about the process at [2]. :) [1] http://metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/373059 http://metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/373059 [2] http://www.rembrandtpainting.net/about_rembrandt's_etchings.htm http://www.rembrandtpainting.net/about_rembrandt's_etchings....

73 points by dragonbonheur 10y ago

incompatible 10y ago

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13593334 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13593334

boulos 10y ago
And I should add: if any of you work at The Met or the Rijksmuseum and want to be in touch about us hosting a CC0 copy of the images, please get in touch! (We've tried to reach out via the emails we could find, but I don't think we've received a response yet).
- toomuchtodo 10y ago
  While I think its very cool Google would reach out to host a copy, the canonical copy belongs in the Internet Archive. EDIT: No snark intended.
  - boulos 10y ago
    A canonical copy certainly does, but just as folks don't want to keep scraping the Met, I'd prefer that folks who want to do style analysis or color transfer or whatever else, do so with a public dataset in GCS (and S3!).
    - toomuchtodo 10y ago
      I appreciate your efforts to provide such a copy :) Apologies if my parent comment sounded negative, it was not mean to be! A rising tide lifts all boats.
      - boulos 10y ago
        Not at all! I'd argue it's extremely clear that if there could be only one allowed copy, it'd be with the Internet archive (and failing that Wikipedia? It's not even the same ballpark, but I think that's second). I've just come around to the "more copies are better" standpoint, especially for different needs.

dataminded 10y ago

Where does one go for a dump of all the images? I'm assuming that they'd rather one not scrape the site.

toomuchtodo 10y ago
A dump is not available yet. > The Met collection of CC0 images can be browsed on the new CC Search beta, also announced this morning.

Jerry2 10y ago

I found a series of really nice sketches but the images are only 600x406px [0]. Wish they'd release higher-res images suitable as desktop backgrounds... [0] https://ccsearch.creativecommons.org/image/detail/_UraJxSFDXbrvGcQmMyRsA== https://ccsearch.creativecommons.org/image/detail/_UraJxSFDX...

chch 10y ago
If you head over to the Met itself's site for this piece[1], it's available to download in full size, 3693x2501. Also, if you take the URL of the picture on the CC page, you can exchange the "web-large" in the URL for "original" to get the main image. Also, that piece in particular is actually an etching, not a sketch! You can read about the process at [2]. :) [1] http://metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/373059 http://metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/373059 [2] http://www.rembrandtpainting.net/about_rembrandt's_etchings.htm http://www.rembrandtpainting.net/about_rembrandt's_etchings....