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prometheus – A distributed digital image archive for research and teaching

digital image archive and tool for research in distributed image and media databases in the fields of art and cultural studies
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Summary

prometheus – A distributed digital image archive for research and teaching is a photo archive[1]. It is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[2]

Key Facts

  • Field of work: archives[3], publication[4], aggregation[5]
  • Country: Germany[6]
  • Instance of: science project[7], image database[8], online database[9]
  • Operator: prometheus – Das verteilte digitale Bildarchiv für Forschung und Lehre e. V.[10]
  • Headquarters location: University of Cologne[11]
  • Chief executive officer: Lisa Dieckmann[12]
  • Has part(s): Q116131463[13]
  • Service entry: 2001[14]
  • Official website: https://www.prometheus-bildarchiv.de/[15], https://prometheus-bildarchiv.de/en/index[16]
  • Main subject: art history[17], design[18], history of architecture[19], religious studies[20], study of history[21], archaeology[22], multidisciplinarity[23]
  • Described at URL: https://nfdi4culture.de/resources/repositories.html[24]
  • Official blog URL: https://www.prometheus-bildarchiv.de/blog/[25], https://prometheus-bildarchiv.de/en/blog/index[26]
  • Uses: Ruby on Rails[27]
  • Has part(s) of the class: image[28], audio coding format[29], video format[30]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [7] ↑ . gepris.dfg.de. Retrieved . gepris.dfg.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [8] ↑ . dbis.ur.de. Retrieved . dbis.ur.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . prometheus-bildarchiv.de. Retrieved . prometheus-bildarchiv.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [4] ↑ . prometheus-bildarchiv.de. Retrieved . prometheus-bildarchiv.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [5] ↑ . prometheus-bildarchiv.de. Retrieved . prometheus-bildarchiv.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . prometheus-bildarchiv.de. Retrieved . prometheus-bildarchiv.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . prometheus-bildarchiv.de. Retrieved . prometheus-bildarchiv.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . prometheus-bildarchiv.de. Retrieved . prometheus-bildarchiv.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . prometheus-bildarchiv.de. Retrieved . prometheus-bildarchiv.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . prometheus-bildarchiv.de. Retrieved . prometheus-bildarchiv.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . prometheus-bildarchiv.de. Retrieved . prometheus-bildarchiv.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . prometheus-bildarchiv.de. Retrieved . prometheus-bildarchiv.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . prometheus-bildarchiv.de. Retrieved . prometheus-bildarchiv.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . prometheus-bildarchiv.de. Retrieved . prometheus-bildarchiv.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . prometheus-bildarchiv.de. Retrieved . prometheus-bildarchiv.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . prometheus-bildarchiv.de. Retrieved . prometheus-bildarchiv.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . nfdi4culture.de. Retrieved . nfdi4culture.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . nfdi4culture.de. Retrieved . nfdi4culture.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 12d ago · Solfatara · 2026-10-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → Germany
    Instance of → photo archive, science project, image database +1
    Google knowledge graph id → /g/121mkdfy
    Re3data repository id → r3d100011047
    + 23 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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