"This time it’s New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, which announced Saturday that more than 400,000 high-res images from the museum’s collections will now be available for free digital download and use in any non-commercial medium — Facebook, Tumblr and personal blogs included.
Copies of the images were online previously, explained Met spokeswoman Ann Bailis, but the new policy is intended to expand access further. Essentially, the museum is recognizing — much like the Museum of Natural History and the Digital Public Library of America — that the Internet can prove a compelling means to make public domain materials tangibly, usefully public.
The newly freed images are available on the museum’s Web site and tagged with the acronym “OASC,” for Open Access for Scholarly Content; new images will be added to the program on a regular basis.
“Through this new, open-access policy, we join a growing number of museums that provide free access to images of art in the public domain,” museum Director Thomas P. Campbell said in a statement. “I am delighted that digital technology can open the doors to this trove of images from our encyclopedic collection.”
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