New resource for videopoets: one million+ images from the British Library

Thanks to Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing for bringing to our attention this very welcome news: “British Library uploads one million public domain images to the net for remix and reuse.”

The British Library has uploaded one million public domain scans from 17th-19th century books to Flickr! They’re embarking on an ambitious programme to crowdsource novel uses and navigation tools for the huge corpus. Already, the manifest of image descriptions is available through Github. This is a remarkable, public spirited, archival project, and the British Library is to be loudly applauded for it!

Read the rest. I’ll be interested to see how poetry filmmakers make use of this new trove.

(Hat-tip: @jacsongs on Twitter)

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