Eileen
Dr. Amy, Psy.D.The Smithsonian has made over 4 MILLION images open source! You can create, copy, distribute, etc. This is amazing!
Vicky Veritas@dramypsyd @Alchemist_Final Just did a search for minerals. Over 30,000 images! Thank you, Dr. Amy!
Its Gregory@dramypsyd
What a treasure...Im lost for words
What a treasure...Im lost for words
Rhode PVD@dramypsyd I like to make GIANT WALL MURALS with museums images.
AdamAdam@dramypsyd Amazing! And the AI scrapers will assimilate these inputs in 3, 2, 1…
Studio Beau@dramypsyd With this post you have made me a very, very happy person.🤩
toxtethogrady@dramypsyd Is it searchable?
MJ LeeSearch for #soccer in the Smithsonian archive, and only 1 photo shows up (along with a lot of plant illustrations). I feel… unrecognized and ignored… 😥😁 @dramypsyd #soccer
Amy (she/her/hers)@dramypsyd Are these available in the normal CC search tool?
@amyipdev I haven’t tried yet but their website search tool is super easy to use!
JanPV@dramypsyd Excellent! This kind of access really boosts knowledge where otherwise, it may not be. The indexing certainly needs a lot of work; my searches for 'Marconi' resulted in dozens of images of dried plants, but only two radio-related items. The same happened with other search terms.
Yusuf Toropov@dramypsyd Sometimes I boost something just because it looks vaguely interesting, but I kept going and checked this one out. Wow.
Got to pause here and point out that #artist s, #journalist s, #writer s and #history ians really need to STOP WHATEVER THEY ARE DOING and check out the #Smithsonian link in the toot above.
#Archive of 4 million HIGH QUALITY #opensource images, tagged exhaustively.
Game changer. Case in point: one of scores of images on #baseball great #SatchelPaige:
emma@BeebsyMcA another treasure trove ⤴️
Brónagh@emmaaum @dramypsyd Oh wow!!!!
The First Captain@dramypsyd Thanks for sharing, this is really impressive. I can’t wait to poke around
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
Bob Mottram :debian:@rysiek @dramypsyd That's nice. I notice that they have a lot of CC0 images of ancient artefacts. I might use those in https://gitlab.com/bashrc2/AberMUSH
Ken '|<3ns41' 🌻 🫰🏻@dramypsyd note that this includes 3d content and they expose an API. 😍
Max Riethmuller (TechLife)
xs4me2@dramypsyd Great stuff!
Celia Valdeolmillos@dramypsyd Marvellous!! Good news!!
Niall@dramypsyd amazing, thank you highlighting.
Midwest Bob@dramypsyd thanks for passing this along.
Anne Fausto Sterling@dramypsyd following the other comments. Thanks for posting this resource.
Rajiv Patel@dramypsyd this is big!
Barbara Monaco@dramypsyd There is so much here! Easily searched. A bonanza.
Invaluable.
Invaluable.
Yahia LababidiThe #smithsonian has made over 4 million images open source! You can create, copy, distribute, etc…
https://www.si.edu/openaccess
Thank you,
@dramypsyd for sharing this 🤓
#museum #Museums #art #photography #news #friday #saturday #history #creativity #goodmorning #goodnews
CoolJojo 😄@EgyptianAphorist @dramypsyd very cool! Thanks!
p x l s@dramypsyd Thanks for spreading the word about this wonderful addition to the #commons.
NanaFN@dramypsyd speechless
Tara Buffington ✅ ♍ 🔮 🌕@dramypsyd: Oh WOW! Just WOW 🤩
Thanks for sharing this!
Thanks for sharing this!
Tanquist@tanquist omg NASA! I forgot they have open source too!
Roger WardExcellent. Thank you.
Dagnabbit, Pascaline! 💥@dramypsyd
This just got me lost in the story of Frederick Douglass. Inspiring. Thanks for posting 😊
This just got me lost in the story of Frederick Douglass. Inspiring. Thanks for posting 😊
AsylumDEG 
@dramypsyd thank you for sharing, this is a fantastic resource!
Cecilia@dramypsyd Wow, this is fantastic! I'm planning an update to a resources for writers post on my blog, and I'm including this for sure :)
MrsMurilloToYou@dramypsyd Amazing indeed! Thanks for sharing this info! I'm always searching open source and public domain items.
@dramypsyd These even have decent descriptions. I'm hoping people remembered when they use them, to include them as alt text.
HarveyDeckAstro@dramypsyd open sourcing a treasure box, amazing move by Smithsonian!
Rita
Seal@dramypsyd very cool!
@byAndreas🤟😌✨
Sue@dramypsyd
This is fabulous
This is fabulous
pancakes🔜Bed@dramypsyd Cool now return all your stolen artifacts
Adam S. Smith
John Wolf@dramypsyd thanks for the share!
Humble Fan of Atty. Woovery cool. thanks for sharing it; I just shared it to a bunch of FB friends who have grandkids, etc. or who are photographers, etc. Nice to see you.
carry on.
ArchaeoIain@dramypsyd do they have rights to publish things by named artists or, perhaps more importantly, unnamed artists?
Connie Sandlin@dramypsyd I have been spreading the word about this today. Incredible resource for many uses.
Nahir Loyo@dramypsyd This is great. Thank you!
Sam Alder@dramypsyd wow, maybe they should give back the estimated 1,400 remains of Seminole ancestors who the Smithsonian Museum are holding against the wishes of that tribe. They have an estimated 12,000 human remains, and massive numbers of objects with no clear ownership history, or documented histories of having been looted.
@samalder yes they absolutely should! Thank you for sharing, I didn’t know they had human remains. That’s not ok!
@dramypsyd open acc
Ade Malsasa Akbar@dramypsyd wow, Doctor, this is amazingly beautiful. Thank you for this news. Greetings from another place of the Fediverse.
JoeJoeTom 🏳️🌈🎶🪨💛🤍💜🖤@dramypsyd I gave it a try. Typed “fashion” and (among other things) found this, a portrait of Samuel Douchy, whoever that was. :-) More information in image description.
Samcritter (He/they)@dramypsyd I found an old Edwardian crochet manual through the Smithsonian! It really is a blessing haha
Rabbi Jill Zimmerman@dramypsyd Dr Amy I’m so grateful you posted this amazing resource! Thank you!