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Louvre makes its entire collection available online

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Re: Louvre makes its entire collection available online

#91

Why don't these photos to have color calibration targets? https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/163309-REG/Kodak_1907... And maybe some meta data about the camera and settings. I don't recall any online collections using targets. Surely these curation and archivist domain experts record this stuff. I've casually asked a few times, but no leads. -- My partner likes to create master copies. Portrait, still life. I've…

I think you answered your own question.

Re: Louvre makes its entire collection available online

#92
post #89

Featuring everybody's favorite piece of Asterix fan art: https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010059199

Sorry to ask but can you explain the joke?

See the first item in this post: https://auntymuriel.com/2012/12/23/asterix-in-translation-th...

Was: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22678816

Re: Louvre makes its entire collection available online

#93
post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

NFTs are a sign that we really need to do something about wealth inequality.

Aka "people should spend money on what I want them to instead of what they want to, because I'm morally superior to them"

Buying NFTs is the public equivalent of wiping your -ss with money. Not sure how to feel morally neutral about it.

Re: Louvre makes its entire collection available online

#95
If you are looking for more art collections from France please check https://www.videomuseum.fr/en they encompasses 67 institutions (like Centre Pompidou - Musée national d'art moderne or Musée national Picasso) engaged to standardize the inventory of their collections and presently includes 36 000 artists, 390 000 works and 355 000 images. Very interesting! Nukomeet is the company which is developing the project. You can find their case study https://nukomeet.com/work/navigart/

Re: Louvre makes its entire collection available online

#98
Malcolm Gladwell has an episode of his podcast, Revisionist Histories, where he talks about how he considers museums are like Smaug’s horde. [1]

I wonder if digitising collections like this might go some way towards resolving this sort of problem?

1. http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/42-dragon-psychology-...

Re: Louvre makes its entire collection available online

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post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aka "people should spend money on what I want them to instead of what they want to, because I'm morally superior to them"

Buying NFTs is the public equivalent of wiping your -ss with money. Not sure how to feel morally neutral about it.

How many poor people were harmed because of NFTs? In fact, it seemed to transfer a great deal of wealth to an artist who was formerly of modest means.

Re: Louvre makes its entire collection available online

#100

Why don't these photos to have color calibration targets? https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/163309-REG/Kodak_1907... And maybe some meta data about the camera and settings. I don't recall any online collections using targets. Surely these curation and archivist domain experts record this stuff. I've casually asked a few times, but no leads. -- My partner likes to create master copies. Portrait, still life. I've…

You can request color calibrated TIFFs from the Rijksmuseum collection: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/research/image-requests
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