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Closing Plenary: Mind the GAP – Reflections on the Google Art Project
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Description
The Google Art Project's walk-through of 17 art galleries from around the world has raised many questions about strategies to represent museums and their collections online: http://www.googleartproject.com/
In the MW2011 Closing Plenary, we'll explore these issues with representatives of institutions who participated in the Google Art Project.
Art & Artists
This paper describes how multiple strands of exploratory thinking across a large organisation were brought together in the complete overhaul of Tate’s collection online.
Reprogamming the Museum
Many museums have been busy building APIs since the Brookyln Museum set the example, and in 2009 the Powerhouse made the decision to offer a much of its collection data downloadable as a data dump. The decision was primarily a pragmatic one, as the Museum wanted to test the waters and examine how the data might be best used before dedicating resources to developing a full API.