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There is nothing stopping you making a torrent. I’m not sure why you expect museum staff to spend their time catering to your niche needs.

• tpmx 6y ago
  Yeah, why would anyone want to download everything instead of manually going through through their 100% super specialized fantastic viewers, one at a time? Whenever an institution announces "X million something available for free".. what they're really typically saying is.. "Please give us more attention. We're not going to just give away the data willynilly. We just want the goodwill and the PR. You may view a subset of the data through our [typically fantastically crappy] viewer."
  • ShorsHammer 6y ago
    I'd be highly surprised if they weren't using IIIF. https://iiif.io/ https://iiif.io/ edit: They are in the participating institutions https://iiif.io/community/ https://iiif.io/community/
  • jshevek 6y ago
    If you are arguing that they aren't really giving it away completely for free, I would agree. On the other hand, many people accept the word "free" to include "no charge, but strings attached", depending on context. Some would consider "you are free to view them on our website, without paying a monetary fee" to be sufficiently 'free' for this usage. In your original comment you ask why you are downvoted. I don't have an answer, but please understand that simply asking this question, in this way, is discouraged by the guidelines and is likely to bring more downvotes.