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Maureen's definition of a museum as a public space to share experiences surrounding art and culture really resonates with me. I am particularly glad that Maureen used the word "sharing". One thing I noticed recently when I visited the British Museum…
I have visited the virtual Dresden Museum in Second Life and found the experience very interesting - in fact I blogged about it (http://tinyurl.com/lbdqey) I don't think the real Dresden Museum would suffer from any kind of loss of traffic, though,…
As I live on the west coast of the US I haven't had a chance to visit the Smithsonian since 2004. But at the time I was very frustrated with the poor lighting in the Museum of American History (especially the galleries exhibiting the inaugural gowns…
What is the title of the Met application for the iPhone? I can't seem to locate it with a regular power search in the App store. thanks.
Sensational statements like Web 2.0 is dead are just Tweet fodder in my opinion. Keen makes some good points about needing to introduce intimacy into web social environments but Keen would have you believe that we need to go (back) to platforms that…
Luke, I hadn't heard of Foursquare out here in Eugene, Oregon so I took a look since I'm enthusiastic about iPhone applications. I think art and history enthusiasts would love to share their "don't miss this" recommendations when they visit a museum…
Amelia, actually here in the US (I'm not sure where you are located), there is a movement among many academicians to change their previous policies about acceptance of Wikipedia citations in scholarly work. Many Wikipedia editors are experienced sch…
Monika, I'd like to respond to several of your points. First of all, I guess I am a little naive but I thought a museum's primary purpose is to educate not make a profit. I thought most museums were nonprofit organizations and used revenue streams t…
Amelia, I was referring to Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp. You can read more about it here. I was surprised to read in the Wikipedia Article that another ruling, Meshwerks vs. Toyota, has extended the "lack of originality" concept to include wi…
Amelia, this is a wonderful site. I've bookmarked it so I can go back and create a few notebooks of my own when I get a chance! Thanks so much for sharing!
I was really surprised to see that the National Portrait Gallery in London is participating.…
Penny, I really like the idea of the "quality" POD catalogue for the curatorial audience rather than the public but would that meet the criteria for showcasing the exhibit's sponsor? Sponsors surely realize, though, that they would receive more over…
I know that David Pogue, Technology reviewer for the NY Times evaluated them and was generally impressed with the features and quality for the price. Before I retired from the University of Oregon we were recommending them for faculty podcasts espec…
Beth, you actually don't need to put your highest quality reproductions on the web for free download to accomplish much of what you are describing. A computer display requires only a 72 - 100 dpi image. If you uploaded a maximum size of 800X600X72 d…
Amelia, that's a very good idea. If you combine the images with related descriptions, you could allow the visitor to either print a "take away" on demand or create a virtual exhibit catalogue that could be e-mailed to not only the visitor but the vi…
For more than fifty years George S. Stuart has been capturing the essence of history's most famous and infamous personalities. Rarely have art and history been melded so exactly in works of such breathtaking realism.
To date, he has created more th…
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- I am an instructional technologist (recently retired from the University of Oregon), digital photographer, blogger, website designer, and database developer. I have been photographing museum collections and making my images available on Flickr with Creative Commons licensing since 2004. I also upload images to Wikimedia Commons for use in illustrating Wikipedia articles.
My work has also been used in programs produced for Public Broadcasting Systems, textbooks, bookcovers, websites, blogs, as references for original paintings, in fine art magazines, promotional posters, conference presentations and in classrooms around the world.
My goal when I started this activity was to provide quality (at least as good as can be obtained with restrictions on lighting and tripod use) images for free use by teachers and students in the classroom since so many schools had to cut back or eliminate art and history programs due to budget constraints in recent years.
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