Digitised collections from museums, libraries, and archives, with rich metadata, strong provenance, and often genuinely public-domain content.
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The umbrella project coordinating cultural heritage data across Europe. Led by the Europeana Initiative, it helps cultural institutions and EU Member States share their collections through a common, shared infrastructure.
An aggregator that brings together content from America's museums, libraries, and archives. Its API offers metadata on individual items and on collections, and the whole repository is available to download as zipped JSON files.
A platform for discovering cultural heritage collections across Europe, with multilingual access to over 60 million digitised items from around 4,000 institutions, including books, paintings, maps, manuscripts, and audiovisual and 3D media.
A partnership of academic and research institutions offering millions of digitised titles. Its Research Center provides computational access to the full corpus, including in-copyright works, under non-consumptive research terms.
Millions of digital items from the Smithsonian's museums, research centres, and archives, released under CC0. Includes images, 3D models, and research datasets you can reuse freely, including commercially.
A media repository that hosts most of the images, video, audio, and other files used across Wikimedia projects. Over 100 million freely licensed files, with structured metadata through Structured Data on Commons, usable by anyone for almost any purpose.