FYI I am in the process of gathering images from the Google Art Project. I've uploaded a small sample to Commons which you can see here:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Google_Art_Project And one really, really, big image to the Internet Archive (because it's >100MB): http://www.archive.org/details/VincentVanGogh-StarryNight-GoogleArtProject I won't be making any more uploads until I have all the images and there are artwork templates filled out on Commons for all the ones that will be uploaded. -- Derrick Coetzee User:Dcoetzee On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 4:00 AM, <[email protected]>wrote: > I see "NPG, reloaded" coming our way... > > Note that Commons already has plenty of images from at least some of > these museums, e.g.: > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Van_Gogh_Museum > > For the rest, we could just ask them "now that Google has put images > online, can we too?", then go and take our own pictures. > > Too radical? ;-) > > Magnus > > [...] > > You can make your own pictures if you have > a 7 Gigapixel camera ;-) > In this video they show how google works: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1EOJr11bvo > > Also if highres-cameras from gigapan.org are cheap available you need > time and the right light in the museum. > > We still have some technics on commons to get high resolution images > from websites: > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Zoomable_images > This seems the right place for documentation. > > But I'm not sure perhaps better to ask friendly or to wait until more > images from museums are online. Not sure if the museums are happy if we > take the pictures and present it in a format that you can easily print > out.... > > Greetings > > Am 04.02.2011 14:12, schrieb Magnus Manske: > > I see "NPG, reloaded" coming our way... > > > > Note that Commons already has plenty of images from at least some of > > these museums, e.g.: > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Van_Gogh_Museum > > > > For the rest, we could just ask them "now that Google has put images > > online, can we too?", then go and take our own pictures. > > > > Too radical? ;-) > > > > Magnus > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 7:15 AM, Beao at Toolserver.org > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello everybody! I've been working on a bash script to rip the high > quality > >> images from the Google Art Project. > >> From what I understand, all depictions of the original works go under > >> PD-Art, even though Google claims otherwise in their FAQ. What I'm > wondering > >> is whether anyone is interested in helping me rip all these images. > There > >> are a lot of images to rip, and each rip takes at least an hour. All you > >> need is a GNU/Linux OS and some basic knowledge on using the terminal. > >> > >> -- > >> Beao >
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