Comments on: Museums In the Digital Domain, Part Four – Generative Assets http://kovenjsmith.com/archives/275 "Making dreams reality since 1975." Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:47:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Y. Grace Park http://kovenjsmith.com/archives/275/comment-page-1#comment-24019 Y. Grace Park Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:08:09 +0000 http://kovenjsmith.com/?p=275#comment-24019 I'm a Flash designer and I wondered what would be the best way to bring a gallery white box/museum space to online. My first thought was to replicate the visual experience. Array of walls/rooms navigated with mouse motion. But after reading your articles, I feel a text-based database with good tagging/searching tools would be more efficient. Or perhaps a nice combination of the two. Thanks for the good read! I’m a Flash designer and I wondered what would be the best way to bring a gallery white box/museum space to online.
My first thought was to replicate the visual experience. Array of walls/rooms navigated with mouse motion. But after reading your articles, I feel a text-based database with good tagging/searching tools would be more efficient.
Or perhaps a nice combination of the two.

Thanks for the good read!

]]> By: Beth Harris http://kovenjsmith.com/archives/275/comment-page-1#comment-14430 Beth Harris Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:10:59 +0000 http://kovenjsmith.com/?p=275#comment-14430 Another great post Koven. You mentioned one of my pet peeves - the "my collection" feature so many museums now have or are developing. It doesn't make much sense in cyberspace. In the world of Google imaages, there are no institutional walls. Why would I create a collection of images that only contained the works that belonged to the Met, when I could create a collection on my computer by right clicking and saving, or by bookmarking with a tool like http://vi.sualize.us/? With an image bookmarking tool, I can have my Sunday Afternoon at La Grande Jatte (Chicago) cohabitate with Starry Night (MoMA) and Where do we Come From? Where are We Now and Where are We Going (MFA). Technology will force us to mingle our collections, our interpretive resources, and our scholarship... Another great post Koven.
You mentioned one of my pet peeves – the “my collection” feature so many museums now have or are developing. It doesn’t make much sense in cyberspace. In the world of Google imaages, there are no institutional walls. Why would I create a collection of images that only contained the works that belonged to the Met, when I could create a collection on my computer by right clicking and saving, or by bookmarking with a tool like http://vi.sualize.us/? With an image bookmarking tool, I can have my Sunday Afternoon at La Grande Jatte (Chicago) cohabitate with Starry Night (MoMA) and Where do we Come From? Where are We Now and Where are We Going (MFA). Technology will force us to mingle our collections, our interpretive resources, and our scholarship…

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