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一直知道台灣花磚博物館，卻沒機會拜訪。今天看到館方推行的花磚日曆集資專案，頗為有趣。介紹說明有兩百餘頁日曆附著QR碼，可以徑行前往花磚所在地。

等待之餘，發現國家文化記憶庫藏有館方上傳的花磚照片，可以望梅止渴。

The National Palace Museum Collection (臺北故宮) has made open data a quite substantial amount of its collection (108k items) consisting of high quality images, metadata and description with terminological precision. I see two obvious immediate direct applications :

1. Building a Chinese Iconography Thesaurus. The description already contain pattern names like 勾連雲雷紋 We would then need to apply image transformation and maybe use VLM to extract and highlight the motif.
2. Buidling a specialized glossary. Would be handy for Chinese literary translators and Chinese lexicography.

The existing Chinese Iconography Thesaurus is a nice effort, but seems to cover only a small amount (~13k items) of the collections available from the museums over the world.

Data of similar quality can be obtained from auction houses as well, like Christie's.