#publicdomain — Public Fediverse posts

Muscles of the Back (1745) by Jacques Fabien Gautier d'Agoty'.

Source: Wellcome Collection

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/457d5fff-644a-41d4-942d-b42b4c3649ba

#portraits #mezzotint #art #publicdomain

Muscles of the Back (1745) by Jacques Fabien Gautier d'Agoty'.

Source: Wellcome Collection

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/457d5fff-644a-41d4-942d-b42b4c3649ba

#portraits #mezzotint #art #publicdomain

Muscles of the Back (1745) by Jacques Fabien Gautier d'Agoty'.

Source: Wellcome Collection

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/457d5fff-644a-41d4-942d-b42b4c3649ba

#portraits #mezzotint #art #publicdomain

Muscles of the Back (1745) by Jacques Fabien Gautier d'Agoty'.

Source: Wellcome Collection

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/457d5fff-644a-41d4-942d-b42b4c3649ba

#portraits #mezzotint #art #publicdomain

Muscles of the Back (1745) by Jacques Fabien Gautier d'Agoty'.

Source: Wellcome Collection

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/457d5fff-644a-41d4-942d-b42b4c3649ba

#portraits #mezzotint #art #publicdomain

Illustration by Jean Errard, from Fortification réduicte art and démonstrée (1600).

Source: Deutsche Fotothek / Wikimedia Commons

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/8a111111-1e6f-47c4-bc64-d5833fea6637

#fortifications #warfare #geometry #architecture #engraving #art #publicdomain

Illustration by Jean Errard, from Fortification réduicte art and démonstrée (1600).

Source: Deutsche Fotothek / Wikimedia Commons

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/8a111111-1e6f-47c4-bc64-d5833fea6637

#fortifications #warfare #geometry #architecture #engraving #art #publicdomain

Illustration by Jean Errard, from Fortification réduicte art and démonstrée (1600).

Source: Deutsche Fotothek / Wikimedia Commons

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/8a111111-1e6f-47c4-bc64-d5833fea6637

#fortifications #warfare #geometry #architecture #engraving #art #publicdomain

Illustration by Jean Errard, from Fortification réduicte art and démonstrée (1600).

Source: Deutsche Fotothek / Wikimedia Commons

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/8a111111-1e6f-47c4-bc64-d5833fea6637

#fortifications #warfare #geometry #architecture #engraving #art #publicdomain

Illustration by Jean Errard, from Fortification réduicte art and démonstrée (1600).

Source: Deutsche Fotothek / Wikimedia Commons

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/8a111111-1e6f-47c4-bc64-d5833fea6637

#fortifications #warfare #geometry #architecture #engraving #art #publicdomain

In March 2025, #Oxford announced that it was working with #OpenAI to digitize #PublicDomain #books from the #BodleianLibrary.
https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about/media/oxford-and-openai-launch

The announcement says that the digitized works "will become searchable and accessible for students and researchers worldwide." That sounds like #OpenAccess.

Q1: Can anyone confirm that Oxford means OA? I have to ask, since Oxford knows the term and apparently chose not to use it.

If the answer is yes, then OpenAI gets a new corpus of important texts to train on and the world gets OA. And eventually all of OpenAI's rivals get the same corpus to train on. If so, then the benefit to OpenAI worth the cost of the digitization is not exclusive access. It's a head start.

Q2: If OpenAI is getting more than a head start in training on these texts, can anyone say what (else) it's getting?

Q3: If these texts will eventually become OA, does anyone know how large a head start OpenAI will get before that happens?

Yesterday (more than 1.5 years later) The Guardian reported on the project and doesn't answer the three questions above.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/26/oxford-university-bodleian-library-open-ai-chat-gpt

Nor does it answer this one, Q4: Have any of these text already become OA, available to human readers, AI companies, and other entities beyond Oxford and OpenAI?

#AI #ChatGPT #Digitization

In March 2025, #Oxford announced that it was working with #OpenAI to digitize #PublicDomain #books from the #BodleianLibrary.
https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about/media/oxford-and-openai-launch

The announcement says that the digitized works "will become searchable and accessible for students and researchers worldwide." That sounds like #OpenAccess.

Q1: Can anyone confirm that Oxford means OA? I have to ask, since Oxford knows the term and apparently chose not to use it.

If the answer is yes, then OpenAI gets a new corpus of important texts to train on and the world gets OA. And eventually all of OpenAI's rivals get the same corpus to train on. If so, then the benefit to OpenAI worth the cost of the digitization is not exclusive access. It's a head start.

Q2: If OpenAI is getting more than a head start in training on these texts, can anyone say what (else) it's getting?

Q3: If these texts will eventually become OA, does anyone know how large a head start OpenAI will get before that happens?

Yesterday (more than 1.5 years later) The Guardian reported on the project and doesn't answer the three questions above.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/26/oxford-university-bodleian-library-open-ai-chat-gpt

Nor does it answer this one, Q4: Have any of these text already become OA, available to human readers, AI companies, and other entities beyond Oxford and OpenAI?

#AI #ChatGPT #Digitization

In March 2025, #Oxford announced that it was working with #OpenAI to digitize #PublicDomain #books from the #BodleianLibrary.
https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about/media/oxford-and-openai-launch

The announcement says that the digitized works "will become searchable and accessible for students and researchers worldwide." That sounds like #OpenAccess.

Q1: Can anyone confirm that Oxford means OA? I have to ask, since Oxford knows the term and apparently chose not to use it.

If the answer is yes, then OpenAI gets a new corpus of important texts to train on and the world gets OA. And eventually all of OpenAI's rivals get the same corpus to train on. If so, then the benefit to OpenAI worth the cost of the digitization is not exclusive access. It's a head start.

Q2: If OpenAI is getting more than a head start in training on these texts, can anyone say what (else) it's getting?

Q3: If these texts will eventually become OA, does anyone know how large a head start OpenAI will get before that happens?

Yesterday (more than 1.5 years later) The Guardian reported on the project and doesn't answer the three questions above.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/26/oxford-university-bodleian-library-open-ai-chat-gpt

Nor does it answer this one, Q4: Have any of these text already become OA, available to human readers, AI companies, and other entities beyond Oxford and OpenAI?

#AI #ChatGPT #Digitization

In March 2025, #Oxford announced that it was working with #OpenAI to digitize #PublicDomain #books from the #BodleianLibrary.
https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about/media/oxford-and-openai-launch

The announcement says that the digitized works "will become searchable and accessible for students and researchers worldwide." That sounds like #OpenAccess.

Q1: Can anyone confirm that Oxford means OA? I have to ask, since Oxford knows the term and apparently chose not to use it.

If the answer is yes, then OpenAI gets a new corpus of important texts to train on and the world gets OA. And eventually all of OpenAI's rivals get the same corpus to train on. If so, then the benefit to OpenAI worth the cost of the digitization is not exclusive access. It's a head start.

Q2: If OpenAI is getting more than a head start in training on these texts, can anyone say what (else) it's getting?

Q3: If these texts will eventually become OA, does anyone know how large a head start OpenAI will get before that happens?

Yesterday (more than 1.5 years later) The Guardian reported on the project and doesn't answer the three questions above.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/26/oxford-university-bodleian-library-open-ai-chat-gpt

Nor does it answer this one, Q4: Have any of these text already become OA, available to human readers, AI companies, and other entities beyond Oxford and OpenAI?

#AI #ChatGPT #Digitization

In March 2025, #Oxford announced that it was working with #OpenAI to digitize #PublicDomain #books from the #BodleianLibrary.
https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about/media/oxford-and-openai-launch

The announcement says that the digitized works "will become searchable and accessible for students and researchers worldwide." That sounds like #OpenAccess.

Q1: Can anyone confirm that Oxford means OA? I have to ask, since Oxford knows the term and apparently chose not to use it.

If the answer is yes, then OpenAI gets a new corpus of important texts to train on and the world gets OA. And eventually all of OpenAI's rivals get the same corpus to train on. If so, then the benefit to OpenAI worth the cost of the digitization is not exclusive access. It's a head start.

Q2: If OpenAI is getting more than a head start in training on these texts, can anyone say what (else) it's getting?

Q3: If these texts will eventually become OA, does anyone know how large a head start OpenAI will get before that happens?

Yesterday (more than 1.5 years later) The Guardian reported on the project and doesn't answer the three questions above.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/26/oxford-university-bodleian-library-open-ai-chat-gpt

Nor does it answer this one, Q4: Have any of these text already become OA, available to human readers, AI companies, and other entities beyond Oxford and OpenAI?

#AI #ChatGPT #Digitization

Drop III (1851) by Agnes Catlow, A. Achilles, from Drops of Water: Their Marvellous and Beautiful Inhabitants Displayed by the Microscope.

Source: University of Toronto Libraries / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/74a825c1-280c-40ed-9958-b0df73c7d08a

#micrography #microscopes #water #microorganisms #biology #science #protozoa #bookillustration #lithography #art #publicdomain

Drop III (1851) by Agnes Catlow, A. Achilles, from Drops of Water: Their Marvellous and Beautiful Inhabitants Displayed by the Microscope.

Source: University of Toronto Libraries / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/74a825c1-280c-40ed-9958-b0df73c7d08a

#micrography #microscopes #water #microorganisms #biology #science #protozoa #bookillustration #lithography #art #publicdomain

Drop III (1851) by Agnes Catlow, A. Achilles, from Drops of Water: Their Marvellous and Beautiful Inhabitants Displayed by the Microscope.

Source: University of Toronto Libraries / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/74a825c1-280c-40ed-9958-b0df73c7d08a

#micrography #microscopes #water #microorganisms #biology #science #protozoa #bookillustration #lithography #art #publicdomain

Drop III (1851) by Agnes Catlow, A. Achilles, from Drops of Water: Their Marvellous and Beautiful Inhabitants Displayed by the Microscope.

Source: University of Toronto Libraries / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/74a825c1-280c-40ed-9958-b0df73c7d08a

#micrography #microscopes #water #microorganisms #biology #science #protozoa #bookillustration #lithography #art #publicdomain

Drop III (1851) by Agnes Catlow, A. Achilles, from Drops of Water: Their Marvellous and Beautiful Inhabitants Displayed by the Microscope.

Source: University of Toronto Libraries / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/74a825c1-280c-40ed-9958-b0df73c7d08a

#micrography #microscopes #water #microorganisms #biology #science #protozoa #bookillustration #lithography #art #publicdomain

Kite scene (ca. 1797–1858) by Ando Hiroshige.

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/e904890c-dc89-4be3-bb56-38dcafb20751

#water #mountains #japan #horizon #flight #skylines #kites #harbors #games #landscapes #play #printmaking #line #woodblock #art #publicdomain

Kite scene (ca. 1797–1858) by Ando Hiroshige.

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/e904890c-dc89-4be3-bb56-38dcafb20751

#water #mountains #japan #horizon #flight #skylines #kites #harbors #games #landscapes #play #printmaking #line #woodblock #art #publicdomain

Kite scene (ca. 1797–1858) by Ando Hiroshige.

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/e904890c-dc89-4be3-bb56-38dcafb20751

#water #mountains #japan #horizon #flight #skylines #kites #harbors #games #landscapes #play #printmaking #line #woodblock #art #publicdomain

Kite scene (ca. 1797–1858) by Ando Hiroshige.

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/e904890c-dc89-4be3-bb56-38dcafb20751

#water #mountains #japan #horizon #flight #skylines #kites #harbors #games #landscapes #play #printmaking #line #woodblock #art #publicdomain

Kite scene (ca. 1797–1858) by Ando Hiroshige.

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/e904890c-dc89-4be3-bb56-38dcafb20751

#water #mountains #japan #horizon #flight #skylines #kites #harbors #games #landscapes #play #printmaking #line #woodblock #art #publicdomain

Daniel Miessler — of, amongst other things, the highly-recommended newsletter, Unsupervised Learning — has created a site for easily reading the Jim Legge translation of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching: https://theteching.io/

Neat! :)

#publicdomain #philosophy #taoteching

Daniel Miessler — of, amongst other things, the highly-recommended newsletter, Unsupervised Learning — has created a site for easily reading the Jim Legge translation of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching: https://theteching.io/

Neat! :)

#publicdomain #philosophy #taoteching

Daniel Miessler — of, amongst other things, the highly-recommended newsletter, Unsupervised Learning — has created a site for easily reading the Jim Legge translation of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching: https://theteching.io/

Neat! :)

#publicdomain #philosophy #taoteching

Daniel Miessler — of, amongst other things, the highly-recommended newsletter, Unsupervised Learning — has created a site for easily reading the Jim Legge translation of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching: https://theteching.io/

Neat! :)

#publicdomain #philosophy #taoteching

Daniel Miessler — of, amongst other things, the highly-recommended newsletter, Unsupervised Learning — has created a site for easily reading the Jim Legge translation of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching: https://theteching.io/

Neat! :)

#publicdomain #philosophy #taoteching

The Ash Yggdrasil (1886) by Lørenz Frolich, from Asgard and the Gods.

Source: California Digital Library / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/d71b4451-13f6-4aa9-adda-d662bd421935

#ash #yggdrasil #trees #mythology #serpents #bookillustration #art #publicdomain

The Ash Yggdrasil (1886) by Lørenz Frolich, from Asgard and the Gods.

Source: California Digital Library / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/d71b4451-13f6-4aa9-adda-d662bd421935

#ash #yggdrasil #trees #mythology #serpents #bookillustration #art #publicdomain

The Ash Yggdrasil (1886) by Lørenz Frolich, from Asgard and the Gods.

Source: California Digital Library / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/d71b4451-13f6-4aa9-adda-d662bd421935

#ash #yggdrasil #trees #mythology #serpents #bookillustration #art #publicdomain

The Ash Yggdrasil (1886) by Lørenz Frolich, from Asgard and the Gods.

Source: California Digital Library / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/d71b4451-13f6-4aa9-adda-d662bd421935

#ash #yggdrasil #trees #mythology #serpents #bookillustration #art #publicdomain

The Ash Yggdrasil (1886) by Lørenz Frolich, from Asgard and the Gods.

Source: California Digital Library / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/d71b4451-13f6-4aa9-adda-d662bd421935

#ash #yggdrasil #trees #mythology #serpents #bookillustration #art #publicdomain

A searchable library of forgotten public-domain film clips from 1915 onward

https://www.movingimagearchive.com/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49832768

#HackerNews #publicdomain #filmarchive #vintagefilms #filmclips #moviehistory #digitalarchive

A searchable library of forgotten public-domain film clips from 1915 onward

https://www.movingimagearchive.com/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49832768

#HackerNews #publicdomain #filmarchive #vintagefilms #filmclips #moviehistory #digitalarchive

A searchable library of forgotten public-domain film clips from 1915 onward

https://www.movingimagearchive.com/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49832768

#HackerNews #publicdomain #filmarchive #vintagefilms #filmclips #moviehistory #digitalarchive

A searchable library of forgotten public-domain film clips from 1915 onward

https://www.movingimagearchive.com/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49832768

#HackerNews #publicdomain #filmarchive #vintagefilms #filmclips #moviehistory #digitalarchive

A searchable library of forgotten public-domain film clips from 1915 onward

https://www.movingimagearchive.com/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49832768

#HackerNews #publicdomain #filmarchive #vintagefilms #filmclips #moviehistory #digitalarchive

The hearts and arteries that carry the good vital fluid (1896), from Plain Home Talk.

Source: Library of Congress / Internet Archive

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/e15fb3bf-7ab6-4405-bb2c-ddf85760c2d4

#anatomy #humanbody #electricity #anatomicalillustration #health #magnetism #internalorgans #medicine #bookillustration #art #publicdomain

The hearts and arteries that carry the good vital fluid (1896), from Plain Home Talk.

Source: Library of Congress / Internet Archive

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/e15fb3bf-7ab6-4405-bb2c-ddf85760c2d4

#anatomy #humanbody #electricity #anatomicalillustration #health #magnetism #internalorgans #medicine #bookillustration #art #publicdomain

The hearts and arteries that carry the good vital fluid (1896), from Plain Home Talk.

Source: Library of Congress / Internet Archive

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/e15fb3bf-7ab6-4405-bb2c-ddf85760c2d4

#anatomy #humanbody #electricity #anatomicalillustration #health #magnetism #internalorgans #medicine #bookillustration #art #publicdomain

The hearts and arteries that carry the good vital fluid (1896), from Plain Home Talk.

Source: Library of Congress / Internet Archive

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/e15fb3bf-7ab6-4405-bb2c-ddf85760c2d4

#anatomy #humanbody #electricity #anatomicalillustration #health #magnetism #internalorgans #medicine #bookillustration #art #publicdomain

The hearts and arteries that carry the good vital fluid (1896), from Plain Home Talk.

Source: Library of Congress / Internet Archive

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/e15fb3bf-7ab6-4405-bb2c-ddf85760c2d4

#anatomy #humanbody #electricity #anatomicalillustration #health #magnetism #internalorgans #medicine #bookillustration #art #publicdomain

Great Comet of 1744 (1898) by Agnes Giberne, from The Story of the Sun, Moon, and Stars.

Source: Library of Congress / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/bdbcdc5e-ae5f-4a0a-b7f4-7d0116cc8c50

#moon #planets #space #astronomy #sun #stars #comets #bookillustration #art #publicdomain

Great Comet of 1744 (1898) by Agnes Giberne, from The Story of the Sun, Moon, and Stars.

Source: Library of Congress / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/bdbcdc5e-ae5f-4a0a-b7f4-7d0116cc8c50

#moon #planets #space #astronomy #sun #stars #comets #bookillustration #art #publicdomain

Great Comet of 1744 (1898) by Agnes Giberne, from The Story of the Sun, Moon, and Stars.

Source: Library of Congress / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/bdbcdc5e-ae5f-4a0a-b7f4-7d0116cc8c50

#moon #planets #space #astronomy #sun #stars #comets #bookillustration #art #publicdomain

Great Comet of 1744 (1898) by Agnes Giberne, from The Story of the Sun, Moon, and Stars.

Source: Library of Congress / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/bdbcdc5e-ae5f-4a0a-b7f4-7d0116cc8c50

#moon #planets #space #astronomy #sun #stars #comets #bookillustration #art #publicdomain

Great Comet of 1744 (1898) by Agnes Giberne, from The Story of the Sun, Moon, and Stars.

Source: Library of Congress / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/bdbcdc5e-ae5f-4a0a-b7f4-7d0116cc8c50

#moon #planets #space #astronomy #sun #stars #comets #bookillustration #art #publicdomain