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This is so cool! (but I can't help but be a little disappointed that there are no image resources include - even some low-res thumbnails would be great!)
by mrspeaker 11y ago
This is so cool! (but I can't help but be a little disappointed that there are no image resources include - even some low-res thumbnails would be great!)
- danso 11y agoI've only briefly perused the dataset...but there is a URL data, and many of the works have this filled in. The MoMA has always had one of the better structured websites, so it wouldn't be hard to write a scraper to grab the associated image. e.g. http://www.moma.org/collection/works/101730 http://www.moma.org/collection/works/101730 http://www.moma.org/media/W1siZiIsIjIxNzgzOCJdLFsicCIsImNvbnZlcnQiLCItcmVzaXplIDIwMDB4MjAwMD4iXV0?sha=ecf15b9af177b4ed http://www.moma.org/media/W1siZiIsIjIxNzgzOCJdLFsicCIsImNvbn... (I guess one thing the MoMA could improve on is moving their image assets to a CDN...that thing took awhile to load)
- zz1 11y agoFor a museum like the MoMA, copyright is a tricky issue, and to publish online pictures requires long enquires about the right owner and getting him (or them) to accept (and they might not, or ask for money...). The cost of this kind of operation for a vast collection can range in the millions of dollars. I guess you can't blame the MoMA for using their money differently, and you'd rather blame it on the copyright mess.