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Digital Strategies for MUSEUMS & Cultural HeritageDOM E-5064

Digital Strategies for MUSEUMS & Cultural Heritage

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Art Museums Mission Statements

http://www.santacruzmah.org/about/

Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History

https://www.moma.org/about/indexMOMA

http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/mission-statementMetropolitan Museum of Modern Art

http://www.guggenheim.org/guggenheim-foundation/mission-statement

Guggenheim

http://www.tate.org.uk/about/our-work/our-priorities

Tate

http://www.santacruzmah.org/about/

https://www.moma.org/about/index

http://www.apple.com

http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/mission-statement

http://www.guggenheim.org/guggenheim-foundation/mission-statement



Art Museums Mission Statements

http://amosanderson.fi/en/museum/

Amos Anderson

http://www.hamhelsinki.fi/en/ham-info/what-is-ham/HAM

http://www.kiasma.fi/en/kiasma/Kiasma

http://www.ateneum.fi/en/collections

Ateneum

http://www.guggenheimhki.fi/en/what-exactly-is-a-guggenheim/

Guggenheim Helsinki

http://amosanderson.fi/en/museum/

http://www.hamhelsinki.fi/en/ham-info/what-is-ham/


http://www.kiasma.fi/en/kiasma/





fuels creativity….ignites minds…provides inspiration

open ended series of arguments & counter-arguments

dialogue between established & experimental

connect people to creativity, knowledge & ideas

public understanding & enjoyment

new interpretations of contemporary art

explore ideas across cultures

ignite shared experiences & unexpected connections

active participation & fearless experimentation


Museum System

Look up definition on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum

Look up ICOM definition: http://icom.museum/the-vision/museum-definition/

Museum is a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and its development, open to the

public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the tangible and

intangible heritage of humanity and its environment for the purposes of education, study and

enjoyment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum

http://icom.museum/the-vision/museum-definition/


Museum System

Collections

Curating Management

Exhibition Web Interfaces

VISIBLE SYSTEMS

INVISIBLE PROCESSESArchiving


Life of an Artifact in the Museum System

Acquisition

Documentation

Storage

Digitization Collections Database

Cloud Collections APIPreservation

curator / registrar lab

lab

Online

Digital Publishing

processing

Digital Asset Management (DAM)

Exhibition

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Life of an Artifact in the Museum System

Acquisition

Documentation

Storage

Digitization Collections Database

Cloud Collections APIPreservation

curator / registrar lab

lab

Online

Digital Publishing

processing

Digital Asset Management (DAM)

Exhibition

pre-visit

visit

post-visit

1

2


VISIBLE SYSTEMS

INVISIBLE PROCESSES

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What is Curating?


…the development of critical meaning in partnership and discussion with artists and publics.

Barnaby Drabble (2003)

What is Archiving?


What to Curate in the Digital Age?


Interactivity Connectivity Computability Steve Dietz (1999, 2000b)

Physical Collecting Born-Digital Collecting


A Framework for Curation?

Thematic Participatory

Digital Only Physical Only Composite

Deployment


Digitize Add Metadata Save + Upload

Scan / Photograph Hi-Resolution

Look at File Formats

Author / Origin Media / Dimensions

Description Provenance Acquisition

Tags Exhibition

Hard Drive Collection Management Software (in-house)

Web Collections (Directly)


Check Rights / Licenses



Collections Management

X Y

COLLECTIONS WEB


X Y

IN-HOUSE MANAGEMENT PUBLIC INTERFACE


X Y

IN-HOUSE PUBLIC

X+Y

IN-HOUSE + CROWDSOURCED


X Y

SOCIAL NETWORK

X+Y

COMBINED

PROPRIETARY

OPEN SOURCE

WEB-BASED CMS

OPEN & CLOSED


Digital Strategies for MUSEUMS & Cultural Heritage

X Y

TMS DRUPAL / WORDPRESS

http://www.gallerysystems.com/tms https://collections.cooperhewitt.org

Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum

wordpress.orgdrupal.org

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http://www.gallerysystems.com/tms

https://collections.cooperhewitt.org

http://wordpress.org


http://drupal.org

X Y

COLLECTION SPACE TYPO3

http://www.collectionspace.org http://www.smk.dk/en/explore-the-art/

National Gallery of Denmark

http://typo3.org


http://www.collectionspace.org


http://www.smk.dk/en/explore-the-art/


http://typo3.org

X Y

PORTFOLIO SERVER

Finnish National Gallery

http://www.extensis.com/ http://kokoelmat.fng.fi/apphttp://muusa.fi/wordpress/


http://www.extensis.com/

http://kokoelmat.fng.fi/app

http://muusa.fi/wordpress/

Institute of Contemporary Arts

http://www.ica.org.uk/projects/soundworks

X+Y

http://mw2013.museumsandtheweb.com/paper/ica-soundworks-the-cms-less-website/


http://www.ica.org.uk/projects/soundworks

http://mw2013.museumsandtheweb.com/paper/ica-soundworks-the-cms-less-website/

SF MOMA

X+Y

http://sfmoma.tumblr.com


http://sfmoma.tumblr.com

Light is History

X+Y

http://lightishistory.tumblr.com/archive


http://lightishistory.tumblr.com/archive

Brooklyn Museum

X+YBEYOND

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Brooklyn_Museum


http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Brooklyn_Museum

YOUR Museum

X+YBEYOND


http://www.pinterest.com/lacma/

http://www.pinterest.com/lacma/

YOUR Museum

X+YBEYOND


http://instagram.com/newmuseum/

http://instagram.com/newmuseum/

What is your Collections Strategy?



TASK (16.30 - 17.30)

1 Curate 5-10 artifacts

Add Metadata (all the details) Digitize & Upload (image + text file)

2 Present your Online Collection

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