High-Quality Images from the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum
From the post:
The Amsterdam Rijksmuseum has made images from its “basic collection” – a little over 103,000 objects – available under a Creative Commons BY 3.0 license which allows you to:
- Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work
- Remix — to adapt the work
- Make commercial use of the work
These images may be used not only for classroom study and research but also for publishing, as long as the museum receives proper attribution. The collections database, in Dutch, is available here. Over 70,000 objects are also cataloged using ICONCLASS subject headings in English; this interface is available here. Click here for an example of the scan quality.
Geertje Jacobs posted a response:
Geertje Jacobs says:
December 14, 2011 at 1:16 amThank you for the post on our new API service!
I’d like to add an extra link to the API page. On this page http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/api, you’ll find information about our service (very soon also in English). This is also the place to ask for the key to make use of our data and images!
If there are any questions please contact api@rijksmuseum.nl.Enjoy our collection!
A very promising resource for use in European history, historical theology and the intellectual history of Europe studies. Coupled with a topic map, geographic, written and other resources can be combined together with the visual resources from the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum.