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But Mr. Dibbits of the Rijksmuseum maintains that letting the public take control of the images is crucial to encouraging people to commune with the collection. “The action of actually working with an image, clipping it out and paying attention to the very small details makes you remember it,” he said.

Not only can individual images be saved or posted, but entire pages, specific searches, or collections can be saved and shared.

The pilot brought unprecedented visibility to our vast online photos and images, so it will be interesting to see how the new interface, especially the social-media sharing tools, brings additional awareness of and usefulness to the catalog