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Re: The Met Makes 375k Images Available for Free

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Post by mdlincoln » Thu, Feb 09, 2017, 6:14 PM UTC

urda wrote: post #17

Is there a torrent or dump of all the images? I wouldn't mind seeding / helping to keep an archive of all this. This is pretty great!

I'm working on pulling the images now, like I did for the Rijksmuseum CC0 dump. FWIW a good place to host that torrent is the Internet Archive - it's great for discoverability.

Re: The Met Makes 375k Images Available for Free

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Post by sogen » Thu, Feb 09, 2017, 9:21 PM UTC

beautifulfreak wrote: post #96

sogen wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, there was a guy selling other people's Instagram pictures at $15k a pop...

That would be Richard Prince. But he made $90k a pop. http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/27/living/richard-prince-instagra...

I should probably pursuit a career in copy.

Re: The Met Makes 375k Images Available for Free

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Post by lostmsu » Sat, Feb 11, 2017, 7:32 PM UTC

mdlincoln wrote: post #101

urda wrote: post #17

Is there a torrent or dump of all the images? I wouldn't mind seeding / helping to keep an archive of all this. This is pretty great!

I'm working on pulling the images now, like I did for the Rijksmuseum CC0 dump. FWIW a good place to host that torrent is the Internet Archive - it's great for discoverability.

How did it go?

Re: The Met Makes 375k Images Available for Free

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Post by ConceptJunkie » Mon, Feb 13, 2017, 3:37 PM UTC

kjell wrote: post #88

urda wrote: post #17

Is there a torrent or dump of all the images? I wouldn't mind seeding / helping to keep an archive of all this. This is pretty great!

Here's an example torrent of metadata and images from the Rijksmuseum put together by an art history researcher: http://matthewlincoln.net/2015/10/19/the-rijksmuseum-as-bitt...

I just finished downloading this this morning. I've been able to look through some of it so far and there's some really fascinating stuff.

I'm particularly interested in the paintings for use as wallpapers, but there are lots of printed materials dating back to the 17th century (and probably earlier).