77,000 Images of Tapestries and Italian Monuments Join the Open Content Program

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Outstanding!

Although, at first glance, the image-by-image mode of distribution seems obstructive to widespread dissemination (as is the case with similiar publications of the same kind and magnitude[0]), the generous licensing makes more than up for it.

Nothing seems to prevent the Internet Archive from providing additional backbone, possibly outlasting this web presence[1]. (Odd, archive.org has no separate category for images.)

The thought of a comprehensive, high-resolution, Gutenberg-esque archive for Images clean boggles and delights the mind (mine at least).

[0] The BBC's image and British Pathé's video archives come to mind. HN discussion about the last publication of this nature: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7604459

[1] http://www.getty.edu/about/opencontent.html

Many, if not all, of these images could belong in Wikimedia Commons. If they're really all public domain, then they could be a boon to encyclopedia articles.

> Nothing seems to prevent the Internet Archive from providing additional backbone, possibly outlasting this web presence[1]. (Odd, archive.org has no separate category for images.)

Working on it. Already have the first collection before the additional images were added.

I suppose there isn't a .torrent for all of these images ? :<

Seeing as how they seem to be going out of their way to mention Open Content and public domain in one sentence, I would venture to guess that there's nothing standing in the way of compiling a torrent archive.

Redistribution is not adressed explicitly, though (as far as I can see).

why not just link to the archive?

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