The Getty Museum in Los Angeles and the Yale Center for British Art are making it much easy for scholars ( and the public ) to compare image of art from unlike museum side - by - side .
The Getty Museum just published 30,000 image using theInternational Image Interoperability Framework(IIIF ) , an API that allows research worker to compare effigy across unlike collecting and initiation so that they can analyze them side - by - side . The release coincides with the publication of 70,000 public arena persona from the Yale Center for British Art that are also IIIF - compatible . There are now jillion of images from institutions all over the world useable to study and equate using this applied science .
All you have to do is click the IIIF logo ( the red and blue logo below the painting in the image above ) on an persona in the Getty or the Yale Center ’s online collection to pull the artwork into the exposed - source image watcher Mirador . you could haul and drop multiple images from multiple institution to calculate at together in Mirador . Other institutions in the IIIF pool admit museum , libraries , university , archives , and research institutions like the National Library of Norway , the Kyoto University Library connection , the British Library , and ARTstor .
" By adopting the IIIF , our images can now travel beyond the confines of our own web site and become fully interoperable with image from other collections , greatly enhancing the ability to follow up on inquiry in the digital surroundings , " as the Yale Center ’s chief curator of artistic creation compendium , Matthew Hargraves , explains in a imperativeness spillage [ PDF ] .
