![]() ![]() ![]() The latter happens to include a curious image. You can jump into the entire collection here, or view a set of highlights here. In fairly short order, the Library plans to release tools that will let willing participants gather information and deepen our understanding of everything in the Flickr Commons collection. And so they’re turning to crowdsourcing for answers. (For example, the image above comes from Historia de las Indias de Nueva-España y islas de Tierra Firme, 1867.) But they don’t know much about the particulars of each visual. They know what books the images come from. The librarians behind the project freely admit that they don’t exactly have a great handle on the images in the collection. The images themselves cover a startling mix of subjects: There are maps, geological diagrams, beautiful illustrations, comical satire, illuminated and decorative letters, colourful illustrations, landscapes, wall-paintings and so much more that even we are not aware of. These images were taken from the pages of 17th, 18th and 19th century books digitised by Microsoft who then generously gifted the scanned images to us, allowing us to release them back into the Public Domain. We have released over a million images onto Flickr Commons for anyone to use, remix and repurpose. Not to be outdone, the British Library came out with its own announcement on Thursday: Earlier this week, Oxford’s Bodleian Library announced that it had digitized a 550 year old copy of the Gutenberg Bible along with a number of other ancient bibles, some of them quite beautiful. ![]()
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