This is truly phenomenal:
| This week, the New York Public Library placed a major portion of their visual holdings online. The initially available collection includes some 275,000 images in categories like the arts, history, and nature. The collection is not limited to photos and paintings but includes other visual material such as maps, postcards, cigarette cards, and Japanese prints. It's all free for personal use, but if you want to use it commercially, you'll need to get a license from the library. This is an immense and immensely valuable treasure trove of documents but there's more to come: "Within the next several months, we expect that the quantity of materials available will double to 500,000 items." The images include metadata, which makes them reasonably easy to search. Demand has been overwhelming and at press time the site was offline for redesign to handle the load. http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm |
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