Tag Archives: wikipedia

Vetting Wikipedia for WikiLink

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Edward Bleiberg

In Shelley’s previous post, she announced the installation of QR codes installed in exhibitions that lead visitors to Wikipedia articles for further information. These QR codes are now found in Egypt Reborn and the Hagop Kevorkian Gallery of Ancient Near Eastern … Continue reading…

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WikiLink (QR Redux)

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Shelley Bernstein

You may remember my blog post a while back, QR in the New Year?  In it, I talked about our QR code testing and reported on some rather alarming #fails that we were seeing like five to ten fold drops … Continue reading…

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BklynFlow on GitHub

Posted on October 14, 2010 by Beau Sievers

The essential experience of Wikipedia is, for me, one of deep focus without effort — of getting lost in thought without feeling like I’m really getting lost. I think this is one of the most compelling and profound user experiences … Continue reading…

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Wikipedia and the Women of Pop Art

Posted on October 14, 2010 by Rebecca Shaykin

I was thrilled when Shelley and Catherine Morris, Curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, approached me about working on this Wikipedia project for Seductive Subversion.  Knowing that Wikipedia is often one’s first, if not last, source … Continue reading…

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Welcome to WikiPop, 25 Articles in English (on iPads in the Gallery)

Posted on October 14, 2010 by Shelley Bernstein

Seductive Subversion opens today and the show takes a look at the impact of women artists on the traditionally male-dominated field of Pop art.  The exhibition team wanted to keep things simple in the gallery—a spare look, so the pop … Continue reading…

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Where in the Wikiverse is the Brooklyn Museum?

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Shelley Bernstein

Today, we are releasing a new feature in the labs area of the collection online that reports on our recent project to cross-post no known copyright images to Wikimedia Commons.  When we started the project to cross-post all those images, … 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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Wikipedia Loves Art: Lessons Learned Part 4: The Stats

Posted on April 3, 2009 by Erin Sweeney

My role in Wikipedia Loves Art was solely as a processor of data. I was not involved with the creation or any of the planning of the contest. That being said, here are some project statistics as well as my … Continue reading…

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Wikipedia Loves Art: Lessons Learned Part 3: Almost done

Posted on April 2, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein

Erin is going to blog tomorrow about her own take on the process and some additional statistics, but here are just a few of the cleanup issues we’ve been dealing with on a pool of 13,000 images. Machine Tagging, Captioning, … Continue reading…

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Wikipedia Loves Art: Lessons Learned Part 2: Competition

Posted on April 1, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein

This next part of the story will take you through the actual competition which was held during February 2009. I admit…index cards…say it with me now…FAIL! (now don’t we all feel better?) “We ask that you shoot each work twice. … Continue reading…

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Wikipedia Loves Art: Lessons Learned Part 1: Pre-Competition

Posted on March 31, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein

One of the things we hope to do with the technology posts on the blog is to take a look at our projects and carefully assess them—to look at our successes and failures and to examine complexities that can occur … Continue reading…

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Wikipedia Loves Art … Let’s Meetup!

Posted on February 4, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein

What would Erin and I do for love? Freeze, apparently (it was really, really cold and windy getting this pic)! We hear the weather is going to warm up this weekend, so it should be perfect—the Wikipedia Loves Art Brooklyn … Continue reading…

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Wikipedia Loves Art, full house!

Posted on January 26, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein

In addition to our original partners (Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Jewish Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, V&A) we’ve now been joined by Art Gallery of New South Wales, Carnegie Museum of Art, … Continue reading…

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Wikipedia Loves Art…continued…and a deadline coming up!

Posted on January 20, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein

Wow, there was such a great response to my first post about prepping for Wikipedia Loves Art! Since that announcement, we’ve been joined by Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Film Society of Lincoln … Continue reading…

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Prepping for Wikipedia Loves Art!

Posted on January 8, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein

This is just a quick note to any of the peeps at cultural institutions who may read our blog. We are helping organize Wikipedia Loves Art, an event being held in February at museums across the globe. To get an … Continue reading…

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