On cleaning our collection data with interactive data transformation tools
Seth van Hooland, Ruben Verborgh, and Rik Van de Walle’s Free Your Metadata group have been hard at work looking at the dataset from Cooper-Hewitt. The first in a number of articles in various...
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First look at our new online collection (public alpha)
“Perfect is the enemy of good” (Voltaire). An early alpha version of our new ‘collection online‘ is now live. I say ‘alpha version’ because all this version is trying to do is replace the previous...
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Being ‘Of The Web’: now with Behance, Lanyrd & Art.sy
Last week we talked about our philosophy of being ‘of the web‘, rather than just having the museum ‘on the web’. And so onto our latest partnerships, our stepping stones to make this a reality. Behance...
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‘Discordances’– or the big to-do list
Yesterday Aaron rolled out a minor data update to the online collection. Along with this he also whipped up a ‘anti-concordances’ view for our people/company records. (Yes, for various reasons why are...
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Exploring quickly made 3D models of the mansion
Restoring the Carnegie Mansion which provides the shell in which Cooper-Hewitt resides, gives a fantastic opportunity to test some 3D scanning. So in the latter part of 2012 we started exploring some...
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We won an award
The annual international gathering that is Museums and the Web has just passed and this year we were lucky enough to win one of the Best of the Web Awards in the Research/Collections category. We are...
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And another award!
This time we picked up a Gold award from the American Association of Museum’s Media and Technology MUSE awards. We won in the ‘APIs and applications’ category against some stiff competition from some...
View ArticlePandas, Press, Planetary
Panda researchers in China,wear panda costumes to give mother-like feeling to a lonely baby panda who lost her mother pic.twitter.com/OtUhV2UJTN — Earth Pics (@PicturesEarth) August 25, 2013 It has...
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Dataclimber explores colors in the Cooper Hewitt collection
Rubén Abad’s #museumselfie outside of a museum A few weeks ago we became aware of Rubén Abad’s poster which shows all the colours in our collection by decade. We sent a few questions over to Spain to...
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Why are we collecting source code?
(via http://rekall.tumblr.com/post/92033337743) Part of what we continue to work on in parallel to the opening of Cooper Hewitt is capacity building for the museum to collect ‘the present’ – which...
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The API at the center of the museum
Extract from “Outline map of New York Harbor & vicinity : showing main tidal flow, sewer outlets, shellfish beds & analysis points.”, New York Bay Pollution Commission, 1905. From New York...
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