metadata from Getty's Open Content Program
Lori Phillips recently
mentioned
on the open-glam discussion list that Getty are
starting
to make high-resolution images of some of their public domain material
available as part of their
Open Content
Program. The announcement mentions that metadata is included in each
file, so I thought I’d take a look. It’s
Adobe Extensible Media
Platform (XMP) aka RDF. Here’s an example I pulled from
The
Portrait of Madame Brunet (I apologize if reading RDF as
Turtle burns your
eyes, but I find it much easier to read than the equivalent RDF/XML).
@prefix rdf: .
@prefix Iptc4xmpCore: .
@prefix Iptc4xmpExt: .
@prefix dc: .
@prefix photoshop: .
@prefix xmpRights: .
Iptc4xmpCore:CreatorContactInfo [
Iptc4xmpCore:CiAdrCity "Los Angeles" ;
Iptc4xmpCore:CiAdrCtry "United States" ;
Iptc4xmpCore:CiAdrExtadr "1200 Getty Center Drive" ;
Iptc4xmpCore:CiAdrPcode "90049" ;
Iptc4xmpCore:CiAdrRegion "California" ;
Iptc4xmpCore:CiEmailWork "rights@getty.edu" ;
Iptc4xmpCore:CiUrlWork "www.getty.edu"
] ;
Iptc4xmpExt:ArtworkOrObject [
a rdf:Bag ;
rdf:_1 [
Iptc4xmpExt:AOCreator [
a rdf:Seq ;
rdf:_1 "Édouard Manet"
] ;
Iptc4xmpExt:AOSource "The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles" ;
Iptc4xmpExt:AOSourceInvNo "2011.53" ;
Iptc4xmpExt:AOTitle [
a rdf:Alt ;
rdf:_1 "Portrait of Madame Brunet"@x-default
]
]
] ;
photoshop:Source "The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles" ;
xmpRights:UsageTerms [
a rdf:Alt ;
rdf:_1 "http://www.getty.edu/legal/image_request/"@x-default
] ;
dc:creator [
a rdf:Seq ;
rdf:_1 "The J. Paul Getty Museum"
] ;
dc:date [
a rdf:Seq ;
rdf:_1 "2013-06-30T15:14:52"
] ;
dc:description [
a rdf:Alt ;
rdf:_1 "Portrait of Madame Brunet; Édouard Manet, French, 1832 - 1883; France, Europe; about 1860 -1863, reworked by 1867; Oil on canvas; Unframed: 132.4 x 100 cm (52 1/8 x 39 3/8 in.), Framed: 153.7 x 121.9 x 7.6 cm (60 1/2 x 48 x 3 in.); 2011.53"@x-default
] ;
dc:title [
a rdf:Alt ;
rdf:_1 "Portrait of Madame Brunet"@x-default
] .
The description is kind of heavy on information about the Getty, but light on information about the painting. For example it’s not clear from the metadata that this is even a painting. You can see from the HTML detail page that there is a fair bit more about it available:
Édouard Manet (French, 1832 - 1883) Portrait of Madame Brunet, about 1860 -1863, reworked by 1867, Oil on canvas Unframed: 132.4 x 100 cm (52 1/8 x 39 3/8 in.) Framed: 153.7 x 121.9 x 7.6 cm (60 1/2 x 48 x 3 in.) The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Still, it’s an incredible step forward to see these high resolution images being made available on the Web for download.