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This Web site contains complete sets of high-resolution archival images of manuscripts from the collection of the Walters Art Museum, along with machine-readable TEI P5 descriptions and technical metadata, released for free under a Creative Commons…

Over 6.000 prints (books, maps or music prints) from the Basel University Library from the 15th to the 19th century, including a lot of early prints from the 16th century.For a number of pointers to the collection (in German) please see…

850 discrete manuscript objects held by Amherst College are freely available online for all to explore. Our hope is that the ability to browse the collection virtually will spark new questions and new approaches to understanding one of the world’s…

All data of the Archives Portal Europe can now be made available via an new API. The ETH Zurich University Archives is one of the APE content providers that allow their finding aids to be accessed and re-used this way.

To mark the Open Knowledge Festival week (17.–22.9.2012), the Finnish National Gallery’s Central Art Archives is issuing a data set comprising its unique collection of glass negatives by prominent early photographer Daniel Nyblin (1856–1923),…

A wonderful collection of more than 87000 images released under an open license.

Project REVEAL (Read and View English and American Literature) was a year-long initiative to digitize and make available 25 of the Harry Ransom Center's manuscript collections of some of the best-known names from American and British literature of…

The Harvard Theatre Collection are a series of images which are currently making their way onto Wikimedia Commons courtesy of the Wikipedian in Residence scheme.

This collection of maps from the Basel University Library includes more than 500 digitized maps, ranging from the 16th until the end of the 18th century. Some highlights included are the oldest available city-map of Paris (created by Olivier Truschet…

The 60 photographs contained in the lavishly designed album „A tire d’aile par le saint Gothard“ takes viewers leafing through it on a picturesque journey from the heart of Switzerland way down south. It combines views of the…