All posts in Digital Lab

Brooklyn Museum in Google Art Project

Google Art Project Deux

Starting today, you can find the Brooklyn Museum in Google Art Project. I’m here in Paris at the launch for the second phase where more…

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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
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Digital Lab, Technology

Geotag Brooklyn

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…

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Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
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Digital Lab, Photography, Technology

Brooklyn Museum books online!

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…

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Friday, March 11th, 2011
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Digital Lab, Libraries & Archives, Publications, Technology

Photo Survey of Historic African Collection

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…

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Thursday, August 12th, 2010
Arts of Africa, Digital Lab

Working Guidelines for the Copyright Project

“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….

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Thursday, January 14th, 2010
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Digital Lab, Technology

Little Images, Big Art

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…

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Thursday, January 14th, 2010
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Digital Lab, Technology

Copyright is complicated

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…

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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
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Digital Lab, Technology

Doing the Right Thing

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…

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Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
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Digital Lab, Technology

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

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…

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Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
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Digital Lab, Event, Libraries & Archives, Technology

Pictures! Pictures! Pictures!

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…

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Thursday, January 8th, 2009
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American Art, Digital Lab, Libraries & Archives, Technology

Fireworks! The Brooklyn Bridge’s 125th anniversary

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…

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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
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Digital Lab, Photography

A final goodby to the darkroom

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…

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Sunday, July 15th, 2007
Digital Lab, Photography, Technology

A Hipper Crowd of Shushers

  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…

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Monday, July 9th, 2007
Digital Lab, Libraries & Archives, Press

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

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…

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Monday, July 2nd, 2007
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Digital Lab, Technology

Getting the picture(s): DAMS, part 1

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…

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Sunday, July 1st, 2007
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Digital Lab, Technology
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