Commons:Batch uploading/Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Metropolitan Museum of Art[edit]

This is one I've been working on for a while. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a large collection of about 60,000 images of works in their online collection database, at a variety of resolutions. These have to be filtered carefully by hand because they have many photographs of 3D works and many non-PD works.

For most images that have a high-res version, it is easy to extract it by simply taking the URL of the thumbnail or regular image and changing "thumb" or "regular" to "zoom". This trick works for all images except those in the "The Libraries" collection (which only contains 50 images). Many images contain a color guide and false copyright statement that will need to be cropped at some point.

Did u try to contact them? Maybe they'd like to help.--Diaa abdelmoneim (talk) 08:51, 3 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
User:unforth of Flickr also has an extensive collection (several hundreds) of MET pictures like this one. Teofilo (talk) 08:17, 12 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Any updates? Multichill (talk) 22:55, 20 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I forgot about this one... for this number of images license sorting by hand is infeasible, so I need to come up with some kind of automated scheme for this. I may also want to repeat the rip from the beginning, since there may be new images since I started this. Dcoetzee (talk) 12:30, 31 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, on reflection I think the best way to handle this is to avoid trying to handle all the images in the database at one time - instead it's best to start with the "low-hanging fruit" of categories and/or searches that are known to be all PD. I'll take another look at this, and I'll also post here about how to extract high-resolution images efficiently - I don't believe it's necessary to stitch for the MET. Dcoetzee (talk) 19:23, 4 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, here's the skinny on how to download these images at "zoom" resolution:
  • Visit the objectview page for the image, e.g. [1], from search results or browsing.
  • Save the image URL of the preview thumbnail, for example http://www.metmuseum.org/Imageshare/ep/regular/ep71.11.R.jpg
  • Click the "zoom" icon to go the zoom view. If there is no such button then only the preview is available.
  • View source. Search for "EQZoom(" in the page text. Take the first parameter to "new EQZoom", and substitute it for the filename at the end of the preview thumbnail URL above (it may be the same). Also, change "regular" to "zoom". This will grab the zoom version of the image, which may be either a TIFF or a JPEG. Zoom resolution varies widely between images and is high but not really high. In this example the URL is http://www.metmuseum.org/Imageshare/ep/zoom/ep71.11.R.jpg
Dcoetzee (talk) 20:06, 4 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I would rather do a partnership project with the MET instead of stripping clean their site. I met a lot of MET people (:P) in the US. I'll contact them and see what's possible. Multichill (talk) 16:50, 30 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Bit busy and doing this from Europe isn't that practical. Maybe WMNY can step in here? Multichill (talk) 20:11, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Cf. m:GLAMTLV2018/Submissions/Wiki-fy the Met, Met-ify the Wiki. --Nemo 07:48, 28 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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