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Archived Zooniverse Project: AnnoTate
"Arches is an innovative open source software system that incorporates international standards and is built to inventory and help manage all types of immovable cultural heritage."
Important for libraries too.
Good explanation of "API" and "stack."
Museums are mining detailed information from visitors, raising questions about the use of Big Data in the arts.
Includes a bit on what happened when they released a dirty dataset with several database no-nos (e.g. non-unique IDs).
If you regularly read the Europeana Pro blog, you have probably already heard of the open access policy of the Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands. Europeana …
$ for permissions never works out.
Developed by the British Museum. A free open-source semantic web platform supporting knowledge preservation and diversity.
The following post is by Lori Byrd Phillips, who served as the 2012 US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator for the Wikimedia Foundation and is now Digital Content Coordinator at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. Her research on Open Authority was recently published in Curator: The Museum Journal. You can learn more in this video from Ignite […]
By Dr. Beth Harris & Dr. Steven Zucker Is the discipline of art history (together with museums and libraries) squandering the digital revolution? We’re not the only ones with this concern. Just last week James Cuno wrote a short article, “How Art History is Failing the Internet” and WIlliam Noel tweeted, “Calling on all other […]
For over two years, much to many people’s surprise, Cooper Union Museum’s and Cooper-Hewitt’s historical publications have been publicly accessible via the Internet Archive. Many of these publications are rare and in some cases, the only known existing copy is held in our National Design Library who worked hard to have them digitized. Sadly, these […]
At TEDxSummit, Walters Art Museum curator William Noel gave this fascinating talk on revealing the lost codex of Archimedes. The TED Blog caught up with him to talk about the digital future of a traditionally closed institution: the art museum.