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> It's a shame that we don't already have this being done by public libraries. What makes you say that? It's already done by so many institutions within the GL

• xniclb 3y ago
  > Unfortunately, the item media as provided to Europeana can not be displayed at the moment. Please try to download the media or view the item on the providing institution's website. Download link is a dead dropbox account. And this is the first thing I tried.
  • notachatbot123 3y ago
    Bad luck to get something like that in 50,000,000+ chances. Which item was it?
    • courseofaction 3y ago
      the number chances is not the problem, it's their outcome ;)
    • slowmotiony 3y ago
      I tried 5 random things and every single one was a dead link. Taxpayer money well spent here
      • deleted 3y ago
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      • rvnx 3y ago
        Spending 6 millions EUR per year to get an index of blurry pictures in ElasticSearch (that they just crawled from somewhere). Well, it's only here for 15 years... so make the calculation.
        • c0balt 3y ago
          You are clearly misrepresentating the value here. They also put a watermark on each image. /s
          • capitainenemo 3y ago
            In all fairness, they don't all have watermarks. I don't know why. Perhaps they collected images from a variety of sources before downscaling and those sources included watermarks. I kind of wish that sort of thing had been part of the QA process though. Decent resolution and clean images would make this so much more valuable.
      • notachatbot123 3y ago
        Where and what exactly? I entered "dog" as search term and each and every item I clicked on, that had a Download option, worked fantastically well: https://www.europeana.eu/en/search?page=1&view=grid&query=dog https://www.europeana.eu/en/search?page=1&view=grid&query=do... Taxpayer money well spent indeed!
        • capitainenemo 3y ago
          Still very low resolution though :/
          • notachatbot123 3y ago
            Which one? I got a gigapixel image of a nice artwork as a TIFF with little effort.
            • capitainenemo 3y ago
              The image in the parent we were commenting on, and many others I searched for as well. I couldn't find any interface for identifying which resources on the remote sites were of reasonably high resolution that would be useful, and which were not.
• criddell 3y ago
  This is the first item I tried: https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/08547/Museu_ProvidedCHO_Stadtgeschichtliches_Museum_Leipzig_GR017935 https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/08547/Museu_ProvidedCHO_Sta... The image is only 600x768 pixels. Way too small to be useful. You can't even read the text in the image. The original work is 30x42 cm.
  • capitainenemo 3y ago
    Ouch. And with a 300 pixel wide watermark at that...
  • mikae1 3y ago
    A starting point for exploration, as I said… You usually have to follow links to the online collections of the originating institution to find high resolution files. Some have them, some do not.
    • capitainenemo 3y ago
      It would be cool if it actually worked like that (as a low resolution preview of things you can get on the actual museum website) - in this case the one offered on the museum website appears to be identical. Same low resolution, same watermark. Perhaps they could save people time by tagging entries that they had already received in low or watermark damaged quality so they could be filtered out of the search.
      • mikae1 3y ago
        As I wrote, "Some have them, some do not." There are lots of possible obstacles to showing high resolution digitizations.
        • capitainenemo 3y ago
          Yes. I'm just noting as currently implemented, it's not very usable. If they had filtering for the low quality trash, it'd be more useful.
• eternauta3k 3y ago
  Also some 3D models: https://www.bavarikon.de/3dmodels?lang=en https://www.bavarikon.de/3dmodels?lang=en