Mark your calendars for Sunday, February 5, when Southern California museums from Long Beach to Santa Barbara will band together for their annual “Museums Free-For-All” Free Admission Day. The event will have over thirty museums—presenting art, cultural heritage, natural history, and science—opening their doors to visitors to explore their permanent collections (note that this offer…
OpenBibArt is a bibliographic database born out of a collaboration between the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA), the Getty Research Institute (GRI) and the Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique of the CNRS (Inist-CNRS). It unifies the contents of four related datasets, whose history is described below, into a single open search platform developed…
What is a museum? Icom finally decides on a new definition The 50-year-old statement has been overhauled at the International Council of Museums conference in Prague today by Tom Seymour 24 August 2022 The definition of a museum has significantly changed for the first time in 50 years after an unanimous vote by members of…
By Audrey Altman, March 30, 2022. Curatorial work with large archival collections is challenging. In order to find artifacts related to a chosen topic, curators have to sift through thousands – sometimes millions – of materials and determine which are truly relevant. Machine learning can help streamline curatorial workflows by analyzing complex datasets and making…
The Dartmouth Digital History Initiative: Digital Humanities, Data Visualization and Oral History Archives Free, Virtual Event – hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society Thursday, April 28, 2022, 5:15PM – 6:30PM EDT Authors: Edward Miller and Bryan Winston, Dartmouth College Comment: Janneken Smucker, West Chester University The Dartmouth Digital History Initiative (DDHI) is an open-source digital…
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is pleased to announce that the Duchamp Research Portal is now live! It provides free access to more than 18,000 documents and artworks, comprising nearly 50,000 digitized images related to the work and life of Marcel Duchamp. The cross-cultural and multilingual portal is the outcome of a seven-year partnership between…