Die British Library hat mehr als 1 Million Scans auf Flickr gespült. Dabei handelt es sich vor allem um Bilder aus Büchern des 17., 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts.

We have released over a million images onto Flickr Commons for anyone to use, remix and repurpose.
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The images themselves cover a startling mix of subjects: There are maps, geological diagrams, beautiful illustrations, comical satire, illuminated and decorative letters, colourful illustrations, landscapes, wall-paintings and so much more that even we are not aware of.

Einen weiteren Nutzen hat das Ganze außerdem:

We plan to launch a crowdsourcing application at the beginning of next year, to help describe what the images portray. Our intention is to use this data to train automated classifiers that will run against the whole of the content. The data from this will be as openly licensed as is sensible (given the nature of crowdsourcing) and the code, as always, will be under an open licence.

Falls Ihr jetzt, wie ich, vor dem Screen sitzt und dreinblickt wie 4-Jährige vor der Carrerabahn, seien Euch auch folgende Seiten empfohlen:

National Archives – Today’s Document

National Geographic – Found

/r/historyporn

/r/oldschoolcool

(via The British Library)