#cc-0

↳rijksmuseum.nl/en/search

SCOPE: 5 ★★★★★ As a art institution the Rijksmuseum does great at pushing for the multiplication of culture. More than 600.000 pieces are available, digitized and often in the highest quality, available for reuse and reinterpretation.

DESIGN: 5★★★★ The digital experience of Rijksmuseum is very smoothly. The content is properly tagged, it is possible to search by topic and to see curations of content. 

CURATION: 5★★★★★ Most of their collection is under public domain!

LICENSING: Public Domain, CC-0

TIPS: They have an award to encourage the reuse of their collection to create new art and design works. Here it is:

↳ oldbookillustrations.com

SCOPE: 5★★★★★ Their open-access scope is very well thought: they restore, clean and share. OBI also offers a great variety of resolutions, raw images, and a concrete record of the origin of the image. They have also tagged the items properly and create a how-to article to help users navigate the site. 

DESIGN: 4★★★★ The design is very early 2000s looking. They create articles explaining how to navigate the site, but from a user experience perspective is confusing, and there is a lot of reading involved in understanding how to navigate the archive. 

CURATION: 5★★★★★ OBI explores a concrete range of time (between the18th century and the first quarter of the 20th century) and has a focus on Victorian and French Romantic illustrations. 

LICENSING: Public domain CC-0

TIPS: Use the Advance Search. That will allow you to find easier what you’re looking for. Also, the humor collection is pretty great!