Now online in its initial release, the Getty’s Research Collections Viewer offers a visual way to browse and search their archival collections. The Viewer aims to make it easier to see what they have in our research collections—rare primary source material such as artists’ papers, prints, and photographs—as well as contextual information such as related…
Check out Polygrid, a developing image search & discovery engine powered by deep learning and PowerDP. Try out a demo via the Rijksmuseum, who has put over 400,000 of their works as hi-res images in the public domain; Polygrid has captured more than 200,000 of them from the Dutch Rijksmuseum Open Data Collection and arranged…
Some links to get you started – check out news, programs, virtual tours and more: Host: The International Council of Museums (ICOM) Twitter Instagram Google’s Arts and Culture blog American Alliance of Museums’ Alliance Blog
Dive into the Library’s Digital Collections to explore just about any topic imaginable. Click through historical portraits and cityscape photographs, listen to sound recordings and oral histories, study American history and world cultures, discover local history and folklife traditions, explore maps, music, manuscripts and so much more. With digitized collections of more than 2.4 million…
The Library of Congress announced the availability of slides from the Eames Collection that document the work and interests of Charles and Ray Eames and projects undertaken by the Office of Charles and Ray Eames. The slides feature graphic design projects, architecture, furniture, exhibitions, publications, films, family, friends, travels, office staff and professional colleagues, as…
The blog Anterotesis has a long list of Digital Humanities GIS (Geographical Information Systems) projects. See this post and this one for background, and Mapping Resources for (you guessed it) resources. These are not projects to digitize old maps, but investigations [the blogger’s emphasis]. This is a great source to see some project already out there.…