[Sigia-l] Online display of art collections

[Todd Moy]

Mike,

The Smithsonian has an interesting feature called e|museum, which allows you
to curate your own exhibition. It has flaws--some overt and security
related--but the implementation might provide some inspiration. Another
resource to look at is Coudal Partners' Museum of Online Museums. They
catalog the online properties of many museums, also including some of the
more esoteric ones:

http://www.coudal.com/moom/

As for metadata, I think that the Getty has been trying to spearhead this
for years--at least, in terms of a controlled vocabularies. I want to say
that they're using Dublin core as their backbone to develop these, but I
could be mistaken. Anyhow, here's a link:

http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/

Counter question to the group: does anyone know of a service or site that
lets people curate their own exhibitions? Of course, a person could always
do this with flickr, but I wonder if there's something out there more
specific to this domain.

-Todd


On Feb 18, 2008 9:24 PM, Patricia Egan <pje875 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
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