Nikhil,
The NGA is currently engaging Wikimedia in a small pilot project and we've
started uploading our images into the commons. If our experience is similar to
that of the Met, the Wikimedia channel is likely to yield the highest level of
overall exposure. Last time I checked, it was the 6th most visited web site
globally. The challenge with Wikimedia is keeping everything up-to-date,
particular after it is referenced, and that's an ongoing discussion. I'm also
hopeful that Wikimedia will engage the LinkedArt project to talk about the
update and other integration challenges.
Our IIIF image services get spidered all the time by bots although I have to
wonder why that is since IIIF provides rich access without requiring any
storage. If I were doing a lot of image processing of remote sources, I'd
certainly prefer to use the IIIF Image API rather than having to duplicate all
the bits.
Finally, the IIIF Discovery API aims to provide a mechanism to make images
discoverable in a standardized way. In the (hopefully near) future this will
make it easier for aggregators who support IIIF to traverse and index
collections of those IIIF resources as well as to identify changes that have
occurred since their last harvest.
Cheers,
Dave Beaudet
Enterprise Solution Architect
National Gallery of Art
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Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 11:04:02 -0600
From: nikhil trivedi <ntriv...@artic.edu>
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv <mcn-l@mcn.edu>
Subject: [MCN-L] Download ALL open access images
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Hello,
At the Art Institute of Chicago, we?ve recently made ~50,000 artwork images
available for download with a CC0 license. We're curious how our peer
institutions are thinking about a request we've been getting: people want to
download ALL of our open access, high-quality images in one fell swoop.
Do you get requests like this? How have you thought about this? They *are* open
access, so it makes sense to offer them in a big set if that's what people
want. But we're wondering how our peer institutions are thinking about this
question. Would love to hear your thoughts!
Thanks!
nikhil
PS, we launched a new website! Did you see it? Check it out check it out!
artic.edu
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