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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For your research work for your bachelor’s, master’s or doctoral studies, for your term papers, papers and presentations you can currently access more than 3.9 million images in the image archive. However, images that you need for your specific research are often missing. With a personal account you can upload these images to your own image database and assign them to your image collections.
You can also specify whether you want to make the uploaded image(s) available to everyone in prometheus after editorial review in the interests of quality assurance by the prometheus office…
…or if you don’t want to publish: simply remove the preset check mark.
If the material for your research involves entire image pools, we can also set up your own research database like those that already exist for various institutions and projects. Please send us an email with a brief description of your research topic. We would be happy to advise you.
If you have general questions about your research data management you can also contact the helpdesk at NFDI4Culture. A team is available there to provide advice. Depending on the focus of the topic, complexity and subject area, additional experts from the consortium are included in the consulting process.
