prometheus is a distributed digital image archive that currently makes over 135 databases from institutes, research facilities, and museums with more than 4,176,000 records from the fields of art, culture, and history 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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Our YouTube Channel

10 August 2026 | By: Corinna

In preparation for our plan to live-stream Björn Ommer’s keynote, “We Don’t Need More of This* AI,” at our anniversary conference, we’ve done a bit of tidying up on our YouTube channel.

The header and information have been updated …

… and we have moved the videos from previous conferences from Vimeo. A few videos have been added to existing playlists.

That’s not all. Over the next few days and weeks, we’ll be adding more videos, and if you’d like to be notified right away when something new is posted, feel free to subscribe to our YouTube channel.

More: +++ Objects in Your Database +++ Städel Museum Digital Collection +++ Export image collections +++ Website adjustment to the new design +++ Image database updates +++ to the blog...