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January 25, 2012: Ready-to-Wear: An Eye on 20s Fashion
First impressions of the exhibition Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties might suggest that the only important… »January 10, 2012: What’s Behind the Green Doors?
On the first floor of the Museum, if you look to your left while waiting for the double elevators, you will notice two wide… »January 4, 2012: QR in the New Year?
A while back, I reported that we were in the process of a trial period with QR codes. We've just taken a look at the stats,… »December 28, 2011: In the Gallery vs. Online: How a Split Second Can Differ
One of the questions people always ask me is how web differs from what happens in the building and that's a difficult thing to… »December 21, 2011: Split Second: A Curator’s Reaction to the Results
I’ve had a lot of time to mull over the results of the Split Second, so here are a few of my thoughts—roughly one week… »
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Tag Archives: DAMS
Collection Online: Opening the Floodgates
Today, we are going from 12,598 records to more than 94,000 in our collection online and this increase represents a substantial change in the way we are releasing information on the web. With the launch of the collection online in … Continue reading
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 5700+ works of art and the nearly 10,000 views of past exhibitions that you’ve already … Continue reading
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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 use some explanation. I can do that… Digital asset. The easiest way to think about … Continue reading
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 we started approaching ten thousand, it became clear that our bulging Access databases weren’t going … Continue reading


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