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Spezify
Spezify is a search tool that presents textual, graphic, and photographic results in a visual format. Blogs, videos, microblogs and images, couple with web-based versions of more traditional print media to give comprehensive search results.
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Yale University Art Gallery eCatalogue
The Yale University Art Gallery’s eCatalogue allows internet users to search its collection of over 185,000 objects. Organized into ten curatorial areas, these objects range from African ritual figures and masks to American ceramics, Asian lacquerwar, and modern and contemporary sculpture and painting. Yale’s eCatalogue is an excellent resource for material culture incorporating traditional gallery arts as well as objects of industrial culture.
Database of Virtual Art
The Database of Virtual Art documents the rapidly evolving field of digital installation art, allowing artists to post material themselves. Including video documentation, technical data, interfaces, displays, and literature, the Database of Virtual Art provides a unique resource that assimilates the needs of the field. The ever-expanding collection combines immersive, interactive, telematic and genetic artworks with relevant links to exhibiting institutions, events and bibliographical references. This research-oriented site has been developed in cooperation with established media artists, researchers and institutions, and endeavors to extend its services to the preservation of virtual art.
Victoria and Albert Museum Collection Search
The Victoria and Albert Museum has launched a Beta version of Search the Collections taking its online collection from 55,000 object records to over a million. Records have been taken from the V&A’s existing collection, and are in dynamic state of process with new information being added over time. As work on the site continues, the V&A plans to incorporate crowd sourcing, an API, saved searches and additional linking.
AlternativeTo, an Index for Free Software
AlternativeTo is a user-rated database of free substitutes for expensive software. Search for a program, like Adobe Photoshop, and choose between dozens of different options.
Stock Photos from PhotoEverywhere
Over 3,000 stock photos from around the world are available at PhotoEverywhere. The site includes not just the typical landmark and scenic images, but also macro details and textures. All the material is free of charge. You only need to attribute or link the images back to the site.
Open Clip Art
A library of user-contributed clip art in the public domain, Open Clip Art is a great resource of over 11,000 tagged images available free of charge.
Creative Commons Search
Creative Commons offers a powerful search federated search engine, which indexes Google, Yahoo, Flickr, blip.tv, OWL music, and SpinXpress for items with Creative Commons licenses. Creative Commons also provides a directory of other, more obscure content providers. These sites range from collections of a few dozen to many million.
compfight+flickr
With the motto “respect the rights of content creators,” Compfight utilizes the Flickr API to find images with various Creative Commons licenses.