Online collection “J. Paul Getty Museum” is integrated!
As the 31st open access and 21st museum image database, the Getty Museum’s online collection with 196,526 data sets has been integrated into prometheus. since yesterday.
As early as in the first years of prometheus, the integration of this museum collection was a recurring topic at project meetings. When the publication of around 88,000 digital images of collection objects under the “Creative Commons Zero” (CC0) license made the rounds in March of this year, the plan was immediately up-to-date again and a new ticket was written.
Getty’s Open Content program was initiated over 10 years ago. The switch to releasing the entire public domain image collection under the CC0 license is the next step in improving transparency and access for everyone. This resource will be further expanded, including by acquiring additional works that will then be accessible to everyone for further use.
Short tip: If images are not displayed, they are not (yet?) under the CC0 license and can be viewed there and requested for further use after clicking on the original database (“house” icon in the left bar on the image).
