prometheus is a distributed digital image archive that currently makes more than 3,913,000 images of over 125 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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Of the currently 51,085 image collections in prometheus, 1,793 image collections are public. This means that they can be seen by everyone who has access to the image archive and, in some cases, can also be edited if the owners of these image collections have activated the “writable” setting. Select “public” and they will be displayed to you, here sorted by “updated on”:
Other sorting options are owner and title.
Now 1,793 image collections are already quite a lot, which are not easy to search from front to back in 10, 20, 40 or 100 packages to see if there is something interesting for you. Therefore, you can also search by different categories, such titles as “Maria” (18 hits), by description such as “Maria” (2 hits) or by keywords like the German word for Christmas,“Weihnachten” (16 hits).
By the way, if you click on one of the keywords that has been assigned to an image collection, you will be shown all image collections that have been tagged with this term.
