{"id":22791,"date":"2019-05-09T21:05:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T20:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=22791"},"modified":"2019-05-09T21:05:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T20:05:35","slug":"finding-an-openclipart-fallback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2019\/05\/09\/finding-an-openclipart-fallback\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding an OpenClipart fallback"},"content":{"rendered":"

The OpenClipArt site has been down for 21 days now, apparently felled by a heavy denial-of-service (DDOS) attack. It has 150,000 bits of clipart, all under CC Zero. Archive.org has a partial mirror of the site, but it’s no use for keyword searching or (it seems) getting the actual image files. <\/p>\n

While Wikimedia Commons<\/a> holds 2,000 images tagged with ‘OpenClipArt’, they didn’t ingest all 150,000 bits of the OpenClipArt clipart. In fact, no-one seems to have done so, and there are also no recent tar.gz archives containing all 150,000 items. The 0.18 and 0.19 releases were 2010 and 2011, and while a 310Mb author-sorted 2.0 release followed, there doesn’t appear to have been a more recent 3.0 release of the archive.<\/p>\n

Thus it seems to me that the site Public Domain Files by Open Clip Art Library<\/a> is the best fallback until OpenClipArt is back up again. It has a searchable partial mirror of 13,778 OpenClipArt images files, with the latest of these dated to mid summer 2014, and the site has no Shutterstock-ery, pop-ups or ‘mailing-list blocking overlay’ nastiness that I could see (while running an ad-blocker).<\/p>\n

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Once OpenClipArt is back online it would probably be a good idea to archive and distribute a big compressed mirror of the summer 2019 contents, if only in .SVG format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The OpenClipArt site has been down for 21 days now, apparently felled by a heavy denial-of-service (DDOS) attack. It has …<\/p>\n

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