Cultural Digital #225
Online collections, conference round-ups, and more.
Hello
This week we have poke-able paintings, a small sprinkling of AI and NFTs, some conference thoughts and a few other bits and bobs.
Neil Mendoza created Mechanical Masterpieces for The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh. I recommend clicking through to watch the video.
“Optimized for short attention spans, it allows viewers to poke, switch, disco, inflate and water paintings to their heart’s content”.
Online collections
Semantic search in an online collection. “We are prototyping a new semantic search feature for Nasjonalmuseet’s online collection.”
Designing the Australian Cultural Data Engine. Digital Humanities Quarterly summarises “a project that harnesses leading cultural databases to build bridges to research, industry, and government.”
Online museum collections down after cyberattack on service provider. This was from the end of last year. It sounds like these kinds of attacks are becoming more common, especially for larger institutions.
Mukurtu CMS is a “free, mobile, and open source platform built with Indigenous communities to manage and share digital cultural heritage.”
Conference stuff
Q&A: Thinking like a publisher - unlocking the value of editorial content. Matt Locke, Danny Birchall, and Chris Sullivan answering questions about cultural sector content.
NDF23 Keynotes. Talks from the most recent National Digital Forum are up on YouTube.
Reflections from the 2023 MCG Conference. A look back at last year’s MCG Conference courtesy of the One Further team.
A more mindful approach, thoughts from the MCG Conference. From Cog Design’s Alex Gowan-Webster.
Other
Free tools for exporting your old Google Analytics data. Your Universal Analytics data will deleted by Google next week. If you want to grab some stats really quickly then this might be useful.
Dave Patten has left the Science Museum where he’d been Head of New Media for really quite a long time. They made this lovely video for him.
Artizen is an NFT-based community fund for art, science, technology, and design.
Digital Specialist-in-Residence. A program from the Australia Council for the Arts which “provides arts organisations with access to a specialist to help them develop their digital capacity and pilot a new digitally led project”. It’s not open for applications, I just thought it was interesting.
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