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The Avatar and the iPad

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Jennifer Bantz

Early in the planning stages for the Vishnu exhibition, Joan, Shelley, and I began talking about building a tool that could offer an engaging entry point to Vishnu’s many avatars. Each avatar has individual traits and a wonderfully complex set … Continue reading…

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Poetry Comes to our Collection Online

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Shelley Bernstein

Did you know that April is National Poetry Month?  To celebrate, the Department of Cultural Affairs and the Mayor’s office is hosting Poem In Your Pocket Day and we are taking part. If you show up this Thursday, April 14th … Continue reading…

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Cross-posting the Collection to Wikimedia Commons and the Internet Archive

Posted on April 12, 2010 by Shelley Bernstein

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:  it’s simply not enough to publish assets on our own website—we cannot expect people to come to www.brooklynmuseum.org and we need to be reaching out to communities on the web to … Continue reading…

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Mobile Web

Posted on March 24, 2010 by Shelley Bernstein

Today we are releasing a mobile version of our website and are happily following in the footsteps of our colleagues at the Powerhouse Museum and the Walker Art Center, who’ve already done so.  As Seb and Justin have already expressed, … Continue reading…

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Collection Online: Opening the Floodgates

Posted on March 11, 2010 by Shelley Bernstein

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…

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Brooklyn Museum Collection Labs

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Shelley Bernstein

Today, we are taking a page from Google and releasing a labs environment for our collection online.  Having the collection online for 18 months has taught us a lot and there’s a plenty of data we can explore, but we … 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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Calling the Mayor…

Posted on December 29, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein

If you’re our mayor on Foursquare, we’ve got a promo running that you should check out.  Not the mayor?  Be sure to check-in at the Brooklyn Museum to see if you can take the crown by out-seating michael d. As … Continue reading…

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Common Ground: Global Flickr Commons Meetup Needs Your Favs!

Posted on September 8, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein

Are you a fan of the materials being uploaded to the Flickr Commons?   Well, we are huge fans and that got a few of us wondering about a way to thank the community of people who’ve rallied around our materials … Continue reading…

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The New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC): Towards Radical Collaboration

Posted on May 15, 2009 by Lily Pregill

Librarians are natural collaborators—we share materials through interlibrary loan, data through cataloging cooperatives, and our subject and technical expertise on numerous listservs and professional committees—but moving beyond these traditional modes of collaboration is challenging. Collaboration is hard because it often … Continue reading…

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Specifically, Tag! You’re It!

Posted on May 1, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein

One of the things we’ve gotten to know about our community is people often have specialized areas of interest.  In just one example, we’ve gotten to know Vincent Brown and his interest is in all things Egypt, so we started … Continue reading…

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Brooklyn Museum API: the iPhone app

Posted on April 17, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein

If anyone needed convincing that an API might be a good idea, this news might just do it for you.  A few weeks ago, we approved an API key for Adam Shackelford, a Brooklyn-based developer, to create an iPhone app. … Continue reading…

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