A New Digital Archive of 2.2M Images from Photography's First 100 Years

[prismatic]

http://www.openculture.com/2017/05/visit-a-new-digital-archive-of-2-2-million-images-from-the-first-hundred-years-of-photography.html

[yial]

Direct link to the archive: http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/collections/photography

[JorgeGT]

Europeana is a fantastic project, but it has this weird UX/UI bug: your search terms are added as "tags" in the search bar, but when you delete all of them to start a new search it triggers a search of the whole archive, which can be quite slow if you don't have any other filter.

[MichaelRenor]

Google photos should be partnering with projects like these to use heir fantastic image recognition system on the library. It would make sorting and querying so much more interesting.

[acuozzo → MichaelRenor]

> It would make sorting and querying so much more interesting.

Google said the same thing of Usenet when they purchased Deja News, but looking at how hilariously broken Google Groups' advanced search has been for the past several years tells me that the service you wish for would only be functional for a relatively brief period of time.

[Finnucane → MichaelRenor]

So it can end up another thing that Google owns?

[jl6]

Some of the metadata links to a site called "semium" which now appears to be a domain squatter advert.