Posts tagged Technology

A Day in the Life - Director of Technology, Koven Smith, at the Denver Art Museum.  Okay, this is kind of funny and not your typical museum video.  I mean, who else throws monitors and bleeps words out (plus some decent tunes)?

An article about in the IndyStar our work CT scanning African Songye Power Figures.

Who says wearing purple gloves isn’t cool?

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Still don’t know the point of Google + …

I’ve got a few hundred people in my profile and I only know about 10% of them … who knows why I even bother.  

Anyone have a good reason?

Horizon Report 2011: Museum Edition.

Not a lot new here, but it’s always interesting to see how wrong people are in predicting future technologies …

Also, I really don’t really understand at all what is meant by digital preservation as it’s described here.  I suppose I should read the report.

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Tiny Drones Used in Archaeology

An interesting story about the use of remote technology to map archaeological sites.

The Real Life Social Network.

An insightful look at how we use Facebook, and all social networking applications by Paul Adams (@padday).  He makes some interesting points on how, of course, social networking is not new and “friends” aren’t really friends. 

I would have liked to see him talk more about the difference between public and publicized information.

A Quora question.

I’ve been experimenting with this as a way to for museum folks to use instead of closed distlists. Do you have any suggestions for the question below?

What’s the best wax to use for coating an outdoor bronze sculpture?

Qwiki is teh wow!  It seems to be a mash up of Wikipedia, YouTube, Fotopedia, and others.

@brooklynmuseum I’m not sure which I pay more attention to, the conservation department or the many technology efforts, but I was really interested to read this breakdown of the project to upload images of the collection that have no known copyright restrictions to Wikimedia Commons.   With 3,222 images uploaded to the Commons, the contribution is enormous and possibilities are staggering.  What if every major museum donated that amount of content?   It brings to mind a lot of possibilities.  One of the things Wikipedia does organically is to categorize articles and images.  I wonder, though, if the categorization of the images in Wikipedia will, in the end, be more useful than the categorization done by the museum.  Or will it work the other way around? For example, here are the commons images with the category of Albert Pinkham Ryder (a painter I love—the image above is by him and called “Summers Fruitful Pastures”).  Coupled with the article in Wikipedia about him, there’s probably more accurate information than the vast majority of museums have in their collections management systems.   

@brooklynmuseum I’m not sure which I pay more attention to, the conservation department or the many technology efforts, but I was really interested to read this breakdown of the project to upload images of the collection that have no known copyright restrictions to Wikimedia Commons.  

With 3,222 images uploaded to the Commons, the contribution is enormous and possibilities are staggering.  What if every major museum donated that amount of content?  

It brings to mind a lot of possibilities.  One of the things Wikipedia does organically is to categorize articles and images.  I wonder, though, if the categorization of the images in Wikipedia will, in the end, be more useful than the categorization done by the museum.  Or will it work the other way around?

For example, here are the commons images with the category of Albert Pinkham Ryder (a painter I love—the image above is by him and called “Summers Fruitful Pastures”).  Coupled with the article in Wikipedia about him, there’s probably more accurate information than the vast majority of museums have in their collections management systems.