Re:Smithsonian Digitizes 40,000 Asian and American Artworks
by wyattshacker on Sunday January 04, 2015 @12:26PM
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The collection is beautiful. Making these works available to the whole world, in an online searchable format is very valuable.
The search facet designations offered by Freer Sackler are useful. It would be cool if visitors/users could generate their own facet designations to allow for user-derived contextual value and meaning related to attributes of each work. Hashtag-enabled comments and meta-collections would be a good first step.
Re:Smithsonian Digitizes 40,000 Asian and American Artworks
by vilhelm_s on Sunday January 04, 2015 @04:24PM
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Seemingly missing: a download link. Since most of these are hundreds of years out of copyright, and they have already gone through the effort to digitize them, wouldn't it be a good idea to upload them to WikiCommons as well?
The search facet designations offered by Freer Sackler are useful. It would be cool if visitors/users could generate their own facet designations to allow for user-derived contextual value and meaning related to attributes of each work. Hashtag-enabled comments and meta-collections would be a good first step.
Do you think this would be useful?