Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum is open to the public in more ways than one: over the past few years, it's begun a monumental attempt to digitize and release high-resolution copies of its art collection. Digitization has become common among museums, but many attempt to keep a tight rein on the works, offering only low-resolution images to maintain the grandeur of the original or prevent knockoff postcards and t-shirts. In the Rijksmuseum online collection, however, over a hundred thousand images are available for high-resolution download.
"We're a public institution, and so the art and objects we have are, in a way, everyone's property," director of collections Taco Dibbits tells The New York Times in an excellent overview of the museum's work....
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/29/4375930/rijksmuseum-opens-doors-with-massive-digital-art-project
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