All posts tagged website

ASK Snippets Integrated Into BKM Website

A number of things happen after a visitor has a chat with our ASK team. At the end of each day, the ASK team takes the…

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Thursday, April 14th, 2016
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Technology
The nicest error page we hope you never see.

Cloud Watching

A few years ago we moved away from hosting our website infrastructure from its dusty basement to the Cloud. This brought a certain peace of…

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Thursday, May 15th, 2014
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Fun Stuff, Technology
Brooklyn Museum in Google Art Project

Google Art Project Deux

Starting today, you can find the Brooklyn Museum in Google Art Project. I’m here in Paris at the launch for the second phase where more…

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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
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Digital Lab, Technology
Moonrise Poem

Poetry Comes to our Collection Online

Did you know that April is National Poetry Month?  To celebrate, the Department of Cultural Affairs and the Mayor’s office is hosting Poem In Your…

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Tuesday, April 12th, 2011
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Technology

Cross-posting the Collection to Wikimedia Commons and the Internet Archive

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:  it’s simply not enough to publish assets on our own website—we cannot expect people to come…

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Monday, April 12th, 2010
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Technology

Mobile Web

Today we are releasing a mobile version of our website and are happily following in the footsteps of our colleagues at the Powerhouse Museum and…

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Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
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Technology

Collection Online: Opening the Floodgates

Today, we are going from 12,598 records to more than 94,000 in our collection online and this increase represents a substantial change in the way…

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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
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Technology

Brooklyn Museum Collection Labs

Today, we are taking a page from Google and releasing a labs environment for our collection online.  Having the collection online for 18 months has…

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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
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Technology

Working Guidelines for the Copyright Project

“Any analysis of ownership and duration must be performed on a case-by-case basis for each work.” Copyright & Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for Digitization for U.S….

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Thursday, January 14th, 2010
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Digital Lab, Technology

Little Images, Big Art

Some of you may have noticed how, over time, some of the small images on our site—the ones with the “Why is this image so…

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Thursday, January 14th, 2010
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Digital Lab, Technology

Copyright is complicated

Copyright is complicated. What’s protected? What’s not? And it’s even more complicated for art, where the work may not be dated and there are questions…

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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
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Digital Lab, Technology

Doing the Right Thing

Did you know that today is the first annual World’s Fair Use Day? We’ve been toiling over an ongoing project to better identify the rights…

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Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
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Digital Lab, Technology

Calling the Mayor…

If you’re our mayor on Foursquare, we’ve got a promo running that you should check out.  Not the mayor?  Be sure to check-in at the…

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Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
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Technology

Common Ground: Global Flickr Commons Meetup Needs Your Favs!

Are you a fan of the materials being uploaded to the Flickr Commons?   Well, we are huge fans and that got a few of us…

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Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
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Event, Technology

The New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC): Towards Radical Collaboration

Librarians are natural collaborators—we share materials through interlibrary loan, data through cataloging cooperatives, and our subject and technical expertise on numerous listservs and professional committees—but…

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Friday, May 15th, 2009
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Libraries & Archives

Specifically, Tag! You’re It!

One of the things we’ve gotten to know about our community is people often have specialized areas of interest.  In just one example, we’ve gotten…

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Friday, May 1st, 2009
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Technology

Google, Meet the Brooklyn Museum Posse

Chances are, if you’ve heard of the Internet, you’ve also heard of Google and chances are pretty good that you’ve set up an e-mail account…

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Thursday, April 16th, 2009
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Technology

What’s Happening Today?—The Museum Calendar Gets Upgraded

If you’ve checked out the Museum’s calendar in the last twelve hours or so, you may have noticed how different (or, really, how not different)…

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Thursday, April 16th, 2009
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Event, Technology

Brooklyn Museum Collection API

We are at the sixth month marker of our Collection going online and you may have noticed that we keep adding to the features as…

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Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
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Technology

Wikipedia Loves Art…continued…and a deadline coming up!

Wow, there was such a great response to my first post about prepping for Wikipedia Loves Art! Since that announcement, we’ve been joined by Art…

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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
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Technology

Pictures! Pictures! Pictures!

Today we’re launching the next installment in the Brooklyn Museum Collection on the Web—more than 4,000 images from the Libraries and Archives will join the…

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Thursday, January 8th, 2009
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American Art, Digital Lab, Libraries & Archives, Technology

Prepping for Wikipedia Loves Art!

This is just a quick note to any of the peeps at cultural institutions who may read our blog. We are helping organize Wikipedia Loves…

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Thursday, January 8th, 2009
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Technology

Collection Preview (and re-thinking tagging)

Our collection is going online and this is something we’ve been working on for a long time. Although we have some clean up to do…

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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
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Technology

happy opening, everyone!

As silly as this seems, it’s just not real until the signs go up and here they are. I will admit, I was more than…

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Friday, June 27th, 2008
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Click Exhibition, Photography, Technology

Click! is not a contest…

…it is a study in crowds. It should come as no surprise that this title made it into one of my blog posts (there are…

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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
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Click Exhibition, Photography, Technology

Last chance to catch our Add-Art show!

Last week I blogged about our participation in Add-Art, the plug-in for Firefox that blocks ads and replaces them with art. We just got an…

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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
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Arts of Asia, Technology

Thank you!

Wowzer! If you were one of the 3344 visitors who cast 410,089 evaluations for Click!, you know what a commitment it really was. I can’t…

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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
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Click Exhibition, Photography, Technology

Mashing-up Hiroshige to block ads and Add-Art!

What in the world am I talking about?? Brooklyn-based artist Steve Lambert has developed a plug-in for the Firefox browser that block ads and replaces…

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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
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Arts of Asia, Technology

Last chance to Click!

We’ve been watching our little evaluation meter today and we hit 51.3 evaluations a minute this morning! This is a pre-thank you to all of…

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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
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Click Exhibition, Photography, Technology

Fireworks! The Brooklyn Bridge’s 125th anniversary

A recent post on NYC Social alerted us to the Brooklyn Bridge’s upcoming 125th anniversary celebration (May 22nd-26th), featuring fireworks on the 22nd. Fireworks have…

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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
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Digital Lab, Photography

Find us on iTunes U

Brooklyn Museum has just joined some of the other non-profits hosting content in the Beyond Campus area of iTunes U (tip of the hat to…

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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Technology

The Making of “Mr. Pointy Comes to Brooklyn”

Has everyone seen the fantastic work the Indianapolis Museum of Art is doing on their YouTube channel? It’s hard to miss and we’ve been watching…

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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
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Technology

Traffic and lots of it…

We are very happy everyone is logging in to evaluate submissions for Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition, but our technical resources are a bit unmatched for…

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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
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Click Exhibition, Photography, Technology

Minimizing Influence

We are launching the evaluation interface for Click! today, so I wanted to take this opportunity to write about some of the choices behind the…

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Monday, March 31st, 2008
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Click Exhibition, Photography, Technology

Click! Get the word out…

One of the biggest challenges we face with an exhibition like Click! is getting the word out. Click! depends on two types of participation, initial…

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Friday, March 7th, 2008
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Click Exhibition, Event, Photography, Technology

Different Takes: Take 2

Following up on this earlier post, our new video has just been published to our YouTube feed. Many thanks to everyone who contributed to this…

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Monday, February 25th, 2008
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Technology

Different Takes

For the past several months, we’ve been working with filmmaker Matt Wolf on an upcoming video project. The video is in the final stages of…

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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
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Technology

Facebook Pages

We just spent some time setting up Facebook pages for both the Brooklyn Museum and the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. Pages are…

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Sunday, December 2nd, 2007
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Technology

ArtShare on Facebook!

One of the things we are always striving to do is share our collection in new and unique ways. This can be seen in many…

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Thursday, November 8th, 2007
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Technology

Video Competition Lessons Learned

Lessons learned post about the Visitor Video Competition for all the colleagues out there who might be thinking of doing something similar.

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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
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Technology

Winners!

As the Brooklyn Museum means so much, and in so many different ways, to our audiences, these videos are an extraordinary reflection of both this…

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Saturday, November 3rd, 2007
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Technology

Good Luck!

On the eve of the announcement of our judges’ decision, Brooklyn Museum staff wanted to share some of our own thoughts (ranging from the “I-have-to-smile…

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Friday, November 2nd, 2007
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Technology

Video entries are rolling in…

Entries for our Visitor Video Competition are starting to roll in. We’ve created a YouTube playlist which can be seen in this post and we…

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Friday, October 12th, 2007
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Technology

Pandora’s Book

If Marshall McLuhan were a gypsy and his teacup the art world, the tea leaves would be artists’ books. —Ingrid Sishey (National Arts Guide, vol….

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Friday, October 12th, 2007
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Contemporary Art, Libraries & Archives, Recent Acquisitions

Lights, Camera…..

On another Target First Saturday note, the Visitor Video Competition was shooting and we spotted a bunch of cameras, which was pretty exciting. From what…

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Monday, October 8th, 2007
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Technology

Luce Visible Storage Panoramas Coming Soon

Jook Leung from 360VR came in today to shoot a few panoramas of our Luce Visible Storage area. These should be on our website within…

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Monday, September 24th, 2007
American Art, Luce Visible Storage, Technology

Let’s hear it…

Screenshot from the Infinite Island comment kiosks. In preparation for the opening of Infinite Island this Friday, we’ve just finished installing our comment kiosks. For…

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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
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Technology

The Dinner Party Virtual Tour

Following up on this earlier post, I’m happy to say The Dinner Party Virtual Tour has just gone live on our website. The launch of…

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Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
Technology

Getting the picture(s): DAMS, part 1

First, a little background: Two years ago, I was working in the Museum Archives, where we were busily scanning hundreds, then thousands of images. Once…

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Sunday, July 1st, 2007
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Digital Lab, Technology

Schenck House De-Installation 2004

In 2004, the Jan Martense Schenck House was completely dismantled to make room for the construction of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art….

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Wednesday, June 13th, 2007
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Period Rooms, Technology

Blogging Overhaul

When we began blogging last summer, we started with a simple setup at blogger.com because we needed a quick and easy option without a lot…

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Tuesday, June 5th, 2007
Technology

Web site Virtual Tour

When the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art’s web component goes live in March, one of the most integral parts will be a virtual…

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Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
Technology

Primer is Complete

The primer is complete. See the video! It is too humid today to apply the topcoat, and thundershowers are expected later this evening. Tomorrow is…

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Friday, June 2nd, 2006
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American Art, Conservation
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