prometheus is a distributed digital image archive that currently makes more than 3,496,000 images of over 120 databases from institutes, research facilities and museums researchable on a common user interface.
Situated at the Institute of Art History of the University of Cologne, prometheus is supported by the non-profit association prometheus e.V. which promotes the ongoing developments of the digital media for science and research.
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There are currently 50,057 image collections in prometheus and 1,723 of these are public image collections, readable or writable. These image collections can be created and viewed by anyone with personal access. You can use them privately to collect images, share them with individuals or everyone else to pool your search results. You can also download them for further use in a research or teaching context.
(1) as a zip file for unpacking: in a folder you will then have the images and text files with the corresponding metadata for each individual image.
(2) as a PowerPoint file: a slide is created for each image including the metadata title, artist, date and location.
In addition, you can enrich your own and public image collections to create material collections. On the one hand, by adding a description of the topic of the image collection or keywords that can be clicked to search for other image collections on the topic. On the other hand, you can fill it up by adding literature references and web addresses, externally for content on the topic or internally for relevant image collections in the image archive. You can mention further information, suggestions for discussion and research questions in the comments.
