{"id":23382,"date":"2020-02-11T11:24:01","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T10:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=23382"},"modified":"2020-02-11T11:24:01","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T10:24:01","slug":"new-zealand-museums-45000-low-res-cc-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2020\/02\/11\/new-zealand-museums-45000-low-res-cc-images\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand museums – 45,000 low-res CC images"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Zealand now has 45,000 low-res images from the nation’s museums under Creative Commons. They’re on Artstor as a public collection<\/a>. <\/p>\n

A search “within collection” for keyword cat<\/em> had 48 good results. One can then right-click on a result and load it in a new tab. From there it’s easy to get a download, and there’s only the lightest of barriers. <\/p>\n

My test downloads, however, were all low-res (1024px, 96dpi), while the viewer images appear to be much higher res but are locked inside a tile-viewer. The downloads are just about of a size to be amenable to A.I.-driven resolution scaling, though.<\/p>\n

Original of Marion Queenie Kirker’s 1930s portrait of an old sailor, 1024px:<\/p>\n

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A.I. up-rez to 2400px and a quick colourise:<\/p>\n

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Not ideal, but there are no jaggies and it’s acceptable for a wide-bordered page in a PDF magazine. One would have to retrieve the larger tiled image and re-assemble, if one wanted better.<\/p>\n

Results relevance is keyword-based, rather than having kittee-trained A.I. identify that there’s a cat in the picture. But the relevance ranking is fairly good, at least on this test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Zealand now has 45,000 low-res images from the nation’s museums under Creative Commons. They’re on Artstor as a public …<\/p>\n

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