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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Prospectively, we will occasionally open small drawers in our image archive for you – and give you some quick tips. In our rubric “Did you know …?” we will be presenting some charming details at irregular intervals that sometimes remain hidden.
- Did you know that you can select the databases to be searched for your search term in the Advanced Search?
The default setting in the advanced search is to search in all databases. However, you can choose to search only in institute, museum or research databases or in the upload databases of prometheus users …
… or should only be searched in sporadic image databases.
- Did you know you can change your e-mail address in your profile?
If you are logged in with your personal account, you will see your name at the top right. Click on the name, then on the pencil and you can enter a new e-mail address.
- Did you know you can sort the images in the image collections by title?
Images in image collections are sorted by default according to “insertion order”. You can choose nine other ways to display your images, for example by “Title”:
