[Sigia-l] Online display of art collections

[Patricia Egan]

Try the Museum of Modern Art http://www.moma.org/collection/ and the Getty
Museum http://www.getty.edu/art/index.html. The Smithsonian includes many
collections, not just art, and you might like to see how it presents its
holdings online. http://www.si.edu/museums/ Exhibition history and
provenance tend to be part of collection records more than online
exhibitions.

For a single source of information about museums around the world, the
International Council on Museums is a good
resource.http://icom.museum/vlmp/ You
can click on any of the member museum's links and see how the collection is
presented.

Hope this helps.

Pat Egan


On 2/18/08, Mike Brown <mike.brown at signify.co.nz> wrote:
>
> I'm looking for (really good, stunning) examples of displaying art
> collections online. Say for example, the works of one particular painter.
>
> Would be nice if they displayed images of the paintings well, and I'm
> also interested in how the metadata for an image is handled. For
> example, "title", "medium", "dimensions", "exhibition history" etc. Any
> good examples of how this information is displayed, made searchable,
> browsable, taggable?
>
> Thanks for any help, and will summarise any off-list answers.
>
> Mike
>
> ------------
> IA Summit 2008: "Experiencing Information"
> April 10-14, 2008, Miami, Florida
>
> -----
> When replying, please *trim your post* as much as possible.
> *Plain text, please; NO Attachments
>
> Searchable Archive at http://www.info-arch.org/lists/sigia-l/
> ________________________________________
> Sigia-l mailing list -- post to: Sigia-l at asis.org
> Changes to subscription: http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigia-l
>



-- 
Patricia Egan
P. O. Box 194391
San Francisco, CA 94119-4391
415.267.4868