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On April 25, 2007 the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto launched a new online initiative called Collection X "This project, which has been in development for six years, represents a huge leap forward for the AGO not only because it makes works from the permanent collection available online but also because it makes it possible for the public to upload their own collections and to create exhibitions using the same application. As it has been conceived, Collection X is meant to function as an open-source museum that features public collections presented alongside collections created by the public." (museumsremixed.blogspot)

Blog des "Collections Trust":The Collections Trust is the new UK organisation for collections. Our aim is to improve the quality of life by ensuring that cultural collections are available for use and enjoyment by everyone, now and for the future. Infos zum Euopeana-Projekt, Collection-Management ect.

The next Stage: Moving from isolated digital Collections to Interoperable Digital Libraries: Online collections do not yet function like conventional libraries. Many digital collections are experimental and lack service components, and few have preservation components. The function of searching across collections is a dream frequently discussed but seldom realized at a robust level. This paper places a conceptual framework upon digital library development, and discusses how we might move from isolated digital collections to interoperable digital libraries.

Search 69,530 objects collected from 1880 to the present day from steam engines to fine glassware, postage stamps to robot dogs. This interactive database contains thousands of zoomable images and research into the Museum's collection, much of it made pub Es gibt auch einen interessanten Vermittlungsbereich auf der Webseite

Ich wollte hier den Tag =Projekt hinzufügen. Scheinbar ist das Editing aber nicht immer nachträglich möglich. ?

The Animal Bytes project at the Museum of Zoology is capturing stories of the Museum and responses to its collections from staff and visitors of all kinds.

o one can have a "museum experience" without stepping foot in a museum. Let's just get that out of the way. It doesn't matter how digitally precise your online version of "The Forge of Vulcan" is, tilting your head to draw the light across the raised ridges of paint is not an electronically duplicable experience. That doesn't mean digital art collections don't have great value. After all, art books do. So here are half a dozen great digital art collections you can visit to inspire your own trip, or your own thinking about art, or to remind yourself or to learn a bit for no other reason than digital art is better by far than no art at all. In order to keep from wandering off the path never to be seen again, let's focus on Western painting.

Tate Britain displays British art from 1500 to today. Yes, it's a museum, but it's also like a big living room. All those works of art are yours. Tate has devised a new way of looking at the Displays with a range of themed 'Collections'. These suggest a number of personal journeys you could take, reflecting different moods and enthusiasms and revealing the extraordinary breadth of work on show.

Creative Spaces connects you with nine UK national museums and galleries, allowing you to explore and comment on collections, upload your own content, and build and share collections with others.

"CollectiveAccess is a highly configurable cataloguing tool and web-based application for museums, archives and digital collections. Available free of charge under the GPL open-source license, it requires little to no custom programming to support a variety of metadata standards, external data sources and repositories, as well as most popular media formats. In addition to multilingual cataloguing facilities, it allows publication of this data in the languages of your choice. "

The 2012 Museums & Mobile Survey finding are now available! Please jump right in and feel free to dig deep into the information we collected in this years' survey.

Housed in a landmark industrial building on the south bank of the River Tyne in Gateshead, BALTIC is a major international centre for contemporary art. BALTIC has no permanent collection, providing instead an ever-changing calendar of exhibitions and events that give a unique and compelling insight into contemporary artistic practice. BALTIC's dynamic, diverse and international programme ranges from blockbuster exhibitions to innovative new work and projects created by artists working within the local community.

StumbleUpon is the cabinet of curiosities of the web. StumbleUpon is the unGoogle, a curated collection of stuff you didn't even know you were looking for. I stumbled around in the arts section and saw more great stuff than in a week on Twitter.

The following manuscript, consisting of 281 handwritten pages of unlined drawing paper, was discovered in the studio of Impressionist painter Edgar Degas (1834-1917) shortly after his death. Recorded as Lot 49 in the legendary 1918 auction of Degas's collection, the manuscript was purchased by economist John Maynard Keynes, who attended the sale as a buyer for the London National Gallery. The pages apparently remained in Keynes's possession until his death in 1946.

Become a storyteller as you write and record a story inspired by works in the museum's collection. Ein project von Delaware Art Museum

Here is a post to inform you of two conferences that will take place at the end of November and beginning of December, one in London, one in Paris. Both are organised by the Wikimedia Foundation in partnership with arts institutions who will be presenting and discussing their experiences on knowledge sharing and partnerships with Wikimedia in that regard. As structured organisations with a deep sense of hierarchy and copyright protection of their pieces and collections,  arts organisations tend to present themselves as essentially resisting these notions, although avid readers of Museum 2.0, Museum 3.0, and French speaking readers of Mixeum are fully aware that the picture of museums today on these issues is a fragmented one. 

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Winning performance from the Museum's Gladiatorial poetry slam that took place in September. Young poets used the theme of Roman London (Londinium) as inspiration. The slam was part of the Museum's Stories of the World project in which young people aged 14-24 are interpreting collections in new ways and co-curating an exhibition for 2012. Filmed and edited by Rachel Nanyonjo and Jita Mitra.

The Timeline is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated by the Museum's collection. It is an invaluable reference and research tool for students, educators, scholars, and anyone interested in the study of art history and related subjects. First launched in 2000, the Timeline extends from prehistory to the present day. The Museum's curators, conservators, and educators research and write the Timeline, that continues to expand in scope and depth and reflect the most up-to-date scholarship.

Artworks often leave the Luce Foundation Center to go on view elsewhere in the museum, to go out on loan, or to go to the Lunder Conservation Center. If an artwork will be gone for more than twelve months, we are tasked to replace it from the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Here, we ask for your help!

googleArtProject: Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces.