Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (287886)	1/10/2016 10:49:00 PM
From: Gottfried	Respond to of 540785

180,000 Historic Maps, Photos, and Postcards Are Now Free for Public Use The New York Public Library aims to engage data-lovers with a new public domain release. LAURA BLISS @mslaurabliss Jan 8, 2016 citylab.com excerpt: Much of the New York Public Library’s collection of photographs, maps, drawings, postcards and other ephemera have been available online for some time. As of this week, those documents are now free for everyone’s use, as the library announced the release of more than 180,000 online archival items to the public domain. Online visitors can download the library’s digitized, out-out-copyright holdings as high-resolution files to use as they please. Hankering for a wall-sized map of “ The Brooklyn of the Future,” or some gorgeous botanical illustrations to plop on your website? The NYPL’s your one-stop shop. Even better, developers can draw on the public domain files as machine-readable data, using the library’s built-in software interfaces or their own tools. That’s where things really get interesting, as staffers of NYPL’s in-house technology department show with their interactive “ public domain remixes,” released alongside this week’s announcement. maybe useful for students