Category: blogs & websites
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Studying ephemera of American culture
Saul Zalesch, Associate Professor of Art History at Louisiana Tech University, curates a website dedicated to the “identification, preservation, publicizing, and study of ephemeral publications that provide more-nuanced pictures of American culture and life”. The site includes a gallery of more obscure objects (posters and labels, for example, are not included) and readers are encouraged…
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Another museum website using tagging system
In addition to the Indianapolis Museum (see next posting), the Brooklyn Museum is also using a tagging system to organize, and let the visitor organize, the collections. It’s a great interactive exercise, allowing you to determine your own set of image search parameters.
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Innovative museum website
The Indianapolis Museum of Art has put up a page with an innovative way to browse their collections. It’s called Tag Tours, and is based on social tagging. For example you can browse works by tags such as colour, or a variety of content subjects/themes (animals, food, sports). It’s a great way for the museum…