September 21st, 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, we had no idea what would happen. We figured a good analysis...
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April 12th, 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 engage interest in our collections. With that,...
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April 3rd, 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 experiences with the contest. At the end of the contest there were over 13,000 images in...
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April 2nd, 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, Bonus Points (the boring, tedious stuff) Erin has cleaned the...
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April 1st, 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. First time shoot the object with an...
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