prometheus is a distributed digital image archive that currently makes more than 3,496,000 images of over 120 databases from institutes, research facilities and museums researchable on a common user interface.
Situated at the Institute of Art History of the University of Cologne, prometheus is supported by the non-profit association prometheus e.V. which promotes the ongoing developments of the digital media for science and research.
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You can display your search results in prometheus sorted according to different criteria. In our example, we searched for “Christmas” in the title in the advanced search, did not restrict the selection of image databases and then received 469 records in the results list. The default setting was sorting by relevance in the gallery view.
Try sorting by artist or title. It’s not just the order of the images displayed that changes. The information “artist” or “title” is also displayed under the thumbnails in the gallery view. Just like when sorting by date:
