Category Archives: Digital Lab

Geotag Brooklyn

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Deborah Wythe

Trying to track the history of the images of Brooklyn that we’re geotagging for #mapBK on Flickr and Twitter and then porting to Historypin reminds me of the game of tag, with kids dashing from one side of the yard to another. This … Continue reading…

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Brooklyn Museum books online!

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Deborah Wythe

About a year ago, inspired by LACMA’s Reading Room, we started thinking about digitizing some Brooklyn Museum publications. We were excited to learn that many of the Museum’s publications had already been digitized–Google Books, Microsoft, and university digitization projects have … Continue reading…

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Photo Survey of Historic African Collection

Posted on August 12, 2010 by Kevin D. Dumouchelle

Careful watchers of the museum’s online image collections may have noticed some large new batches of African works begin to pop up over the last month. This summer, with the help of Connie Jang, an intern with the Digital Collections … Continue reading…

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Working Guidelines for the Copyright Project

Posted on January 14, 2010 by Deborah Wythe

“Any analysis of ownership and duration must be performed on a case-by-case basis for each work.” Copyright & Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for Digitization for U.S. Libraries, Archives & Museums. Peter Hirtle, Emily Hudson and Andrew T. Kenyon (Ithaca, NY: Cornell … Continue reading…

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Little Images, Big Art

Posted on January 14, 2010 by Arlene Yu

Some of you may have noticed how, over time, some of the small images on our site—the ones with the “Why is this image so small?” caption – have morphed into larger, downloadable ones. This has happened as we’ve found … Continue reading…

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Copyright is complicated

Posted on January 13, 2010 by Deborah Wythe

Copyright is complicated. What’s protected? What’s not? And it’s even more complicated for art, where the work may not be dated and there are questions about whether it was “published” and what “publication” means. And it’s a legal matter, which … Continue reading…

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Doing the Right Thing

Posted on January 12, 2010 by Shelley Bernstein

Did you know that today is the first annual World’s Fair Use Day? We’ve been toiling over an ongoing project to better identify the rights status of objects in our online collection, so with World’s Fair Use Day it seemed … Continue reading…

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Common Ground 2009: A Flickr Meetup with NYPL and the Brooklyn Museum

Posted on September 30, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein

If you are a fan of the The Commons on Flickr and live in the NYC area, come to our Common Ground meetup this weekend to celebrate—we’ve got tons and tons of neato stuff to give away!  The folks from … Continue reading…

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Pictures! Pictures! Pictures!

Posted on January 8, 2009 by Deborah Wythe

Today we’re launching the next installment in the Brooklyn Museum Collection on the Web—more than 4,000 images from the Libraries and Archives will join the 5700+ works of art and the nearly 10,000 views of past exhibitions that you’ve already … Continue reading…

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Fireworks! The Brooklyn Bridge’s 125th anniversary

Posted on May 17, 2008 by Deborah Wythe

A recent post on NYC Social alerted us to the Brooklyn Bridge’s upcoming 125th anniversary celebration (May 22nd-26th), featuring fireworks on the 22nd. Fireworks have to be one of my favorite NYC treats, from the 4th of July to the … Continue reading…

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A final goodby to the darkroom

Posted on July 15, 2007 by Deborah Wythe

Last month the last of the darkroom equipment finally left the Museum, nearly 2 years after we shut down the darkroom for good (the darkroom is now the Scan Lab and the film loading room is my office, complete with … Continue reading…

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A Hipper Crowd of Shushers

Posted on July 9, 2007 by Shelley Bernstein

  In case you missed it, our very own Sarah Gentile was profiled in Sunday’s New York Times.  The Styles article by Kara Jesella, focuses on hipster librarians.  Check out the full article and we’re happy to note it was … Continue reading…

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So what’s a DAMS and why do we need one?

Posted on July 2, 2007 by Deborah Wythe

It was brought to my attention that even my attempt to explain DAMS (“digital asset management system”) fell on the side of jargon and could use some explanation. I can do that… Digital asset. The easiest way to think about … Continue reading…

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Getting the picture(s): DAMS, part 1

Posted on July 1, 2007 by Deborah Wythe

First, a little background: Two years ago, I was working in the Museum Archives, where we were busily scanning hundreds, then thousands of images. Once we started approaching ten thousand, it became clear that our bulging Access databases weren’t going … Continue reading…

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