Open Clip Art Library
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The Open Clip Art Library ( Openclipart for short ) is a free clipart library. Everyone can contribute their own cliparts or search, download and use the existing ones. All works are licensed as public domain and can be used and changed as desired.
The file format used is the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format standardized by the W3C .
The project was started in early 2004 by Inkscape developers Jon Phillips and Bryce Harrington to collect flag icons for the software. It followed the example of an earlier similar undertaking for the mother project Sodipodi. It developed very well and the objective was expanded. The "Open Clip Art Library 2.0" used the Aiki framework created for the project instead of the ccHost software that had been used until then .
In the following years, Openclipart continued to develop and was incorporated into various vector graphics programs (including Inkpad, Inkscape).
In April 2019, the website allegedly fell victim to a DDoS attack, as a result of which the website was offline until December 2019. In December 2019 the site was relaunched with a new design and a new software base. At this point in time, many of the functions (search function, tag system, etc.) had not yet been implemented again.
During the shutdown phase, freesvgclipart.com was a clone of the original project.
Objectives of the project
- Provide a collection point for public domain clip art for open source applications
- Develop standards for the common, local access of different applications
- Development of a universal metadata scheme for cliparts
- Encourage the use of open graphic formats such as SVG and PNG
- Increase the interoperability of different applications (by using standardized formats)
- Develop converters for various formats and make them available
