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This is the first item I tried: https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/08547/Museu_ProvidedCHO_Stadtgeschichtliches_Museum_Leipzig_GR017935 https://www.europeana.eu/
by 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 agoOuch. And with a 300 pixel wide watermark at that...
- mikae1 3y agoA 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 agoIt 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 agoAs I wrote, "Some have them, some do not." There are lots of possible obstacles to showing high resolution digitizations.
- capitainenemo 3y agoYes. 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.
- criddell 3y agoThe fact that they would deface the image with a watermark tells me a great deal about the values of the "museum".