Getty's blog post about it: http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/open-content-an-idea-whose-time-...
An example page where you can download a 4264px × 3282px copy of Van Gogh's 'Irises' (28mb .jpg): http://search.getty.edu/museum/records/musobject?objectid=94...
I'm wondering how long it will be before someone creates a .torrent with the entire collection...
EDIT: Scraper running. Should be done shortly (collecting small version, original version, XML data).
Not going to post a torrent though - mostly cuz you all can figure it out anyhow. The images are all of the form:
NNNNNN01.JPG on that S3 bucket.
NNNNNN is the object ID (the internal record ID of the work of art) zero-padded to 6 digits. The object ID is the same value that appears, for instance, in the URL on their online collection:
URL for Irises: http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=...
URL for the full-rez image on S3: http://gettylargeimages.s3.amazonaws.com/00094701.jpg
You figure it out :)
That would make a convenient fizzbuzz style interview question.
Source: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/S3Torrent.htm...
I said my original comment because the idea was to have use learn the power of wget by redownloading all files, which seemed pointless to me.
2) Iterate through objectids to fetch the following: a) xml data b) thumbnails (from getty servers) c) original work on cloudfront
You're assuming the convention holds across all ~4600 objects. Never assume. Follow the links.
There's also the more focused, but less functional, Getty Museum online collection, which has (more or less) the same museum objects, and also has links to download the images where available.
Note, this is ~5000 images out of a collection of hundreds of thousands of objects. This is the easy stuff - public domain objects, with no rights/contract issues, with available, high-quality imaging, fully owned by Getty.