Links:
http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/
http://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/story/20150430-rosetta-the-whole-story/index.html
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/http://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians
http://ingenious.org.uk/Read/
http://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/outside-the-spacecraft/online/
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/online_science/explore_our_collections/stories
https://storymap.knightlab.com/
https://storymap.knightlab.com/examples/bosch-garden/
Here are a few related articles on this subject:
http://mw2015.museumsandtheweb.com/paper/the-whole-story-and-then-some-digital-storytelling-in-evolving-museum-practice/
https://storytellinginthedigitalage.wordpress.com
http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/11/the-future-of-the-feature-breaking-out-of-templates-to-build-customized-reading-experiences/
http://www.trevorowens.org/2014/02/a-draft-style-guide-for-digital-collection-hypertexts/
http://alistapart.com/article/building-nonlinear-narratives-for-the-web
https://hackpad.com/Interactive-Storytelling-pPjlGpwaNh6
http://www.rcm.ac.uk/museum/digitalresources/google/
Finally:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NnTg-KfmEpWeLtCm7zMK-THWyzHIDdaeWaoYtQMAyPQ/edit#gid=0 (good list of digital storytelling projects)
This is also something that Europeana has been contemplating. They have used both their own custom platform (e.g. http://exhibitions.europeana.eu/exhibits/show/recording-and-playing-machines) and GCI (e.g. https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/u/0/exhibit/photography-on-a-silver-plate/gQxWH0VE?hl). More examples of both (and other things from partners) via http://exhibitions.europeana.eu/. The Europeana platform is up for redevelopment this year.
Monday, 7 March 2016
Saturday, 20 February 2016
Europeana 280 - Art from the 28 Countries of Europe
Source of article: http://pro.europeana.eu/pressrelease/europeana-280-art-from-the-28-countries-of-europe
Every EU country is asked to celebrate its contribution to European art history as part of a Europe-wide campaign to involve people with their shared art heritage, and to support the launch of the Europeana Art History channel.
Europe’s 28 Culture Ministries have been invited to work with their museums and galleries to choose at least 10 paintings that represent their country’s contribution to Europe’s art history. And the public across Europe will have their say on the 280 chosen pieces too, by voting for the works that they feel to be inspirational.
The campaign hopes to get people across Europe involved with art treasures from their own and other European countries, and is supported by the European Commission as part of the development of Europeana.
The nominated paintings will feature on the new Europeana Art History Channel, to be launched in early 2016. The 280 pieces of art will form a special collection in the channel, bringing together Europe’s most influential paintings. Selected paintings will also feature in a specially curated virtual exhibition in 2016.
Merete Sanderhoff, Curator of Digital Museum Practice at SMK, The National Gallery of Denmark, and member of the Europeana Members Council said: “Working with digital art collections, I have always been driven by a vision where people can experience artworks side by side, even if the physical objects are located in disparate institutions and different countries. The Europeana Art History Channel helps realise this vision, offering up a unique perspective and access to Europe's artistic heritage to everyone online, no matter where they live or how far they can travel; the Europeana 280 campaign is a great way to start getting people involved with it.”
Each nominated piece should have contributed to a European art movement down the centuries - from Gothic to Renaissance, from Baroque to Impressionism, and from Cubism to Pop Art. The Europeana Art History Channel will provide a unique perspective on European art, not only providing access to works from all of Europe, and throughout history but where the iconic sits side by side with lesser known but still important counterparts.
Jill Cousins, Europeana’s Executive Director said: “Europe’s art history is rich and varied; we are all aware of Europe’s emblematic paintings but so many important and beautiful works are often not known outside of the countries that we live in. We want to give people across Europe the chance to discover those works alongside their more famous cousins, to explore their individual beauty as well as their wider significance. [For example Pyke Koch’s magisch realisme alongside Salvador Dali, or frescoes by Toma of Suceava from Moldavia alongside Da Vinci’s The Last Supper.] And to be able to do all of this online.”
Europeana.eu is Europe’s platform for digital cultural heritage. It brings together more than 40 million books, paintings, films, museum objects and archival records that have been digitised by cultural institutions throughout Europe.
The launch of Europeana channels will take this a step further, offering visitors a rich, curated journey through themed content, and with high quality digital images. And visitors will be able to explore different perspectives of a theme through the breadth of related content - for example an artist’s correspondence or others writing on an artist’s work could be items that can be explored alongside paintings. Europeana Art History channel will follow the launch of the Europeana Music Channel in late 2015.
Europeana Europeana is Europe's digital platform for cultural heritage, which collects and provides online access to tens of millions of digitised items from libraries, archives, audiovisual collections and museums across Europe. We are a network, representing more than 3000 cultural heritage organisations and a thousand individuals from these and other walks of life including the creative and technical sectors, passionate about bringing Europe's vast wealth of cultural heritage to the world. www.europeana.eu
Every EU country is asked to celebrate its contribution to European art history as part of a Europe-wide campaign to involve people with their shared art heritage, and to support the launch of the Europeana Art History channel.
Europe’s 28 Culture Ministries have been invited to work with their museums and galleries to choose at least 10 paintings that represent their country’s contribution to Europe’s art history. And the public across Europe will have their say on the 280 chosen pieces too, by voting for the works that they feel to be inspirational.
The campaign hopes to get people across Europe involved with art treasures from their own and other European countries, and is supported by the European Commission as part of the development of Europeana.
The nominated paintings will feature on the new Europeana Art History Channel, to be launched in early 2016. The 280 pieces of art will form a special collection in the channel, bringing together Europe’s most influential paintings. Selected paintings will also feature in a specially curated virtual exhibition in 2016.
Merete Sanderhoff, Curator of Digital Museum Practice at SMK, The National Gallery of Denmark, and member of the Europeana Members Council said: “Working with digital art collections, I have always been driven by a vision where people can experience artworks side by side, even if the physical objects are located in disparate institutions and different countries. The Europeana Art History Channel helps realise this vision, offering up a unique perspective and access to Europe's artistic heritage to everyone online, no matter where they live or how far they can travel; the Europeana 280 campaign is a great way to start getting people involved with it.”
Each nominated piece should have contributed to a European art movement down the centuries - from Gothic to Renaissance, from Baroque to Impressionism, and from Cubism to Pop Art. The Europeana Art History Channel will provide a unique perspective on European art, not only providing access to works from all of Europe, and throughout history but where the iconic sits side by side with lesser known but still important counterparts.
Jill Cousins, Europeana’s Executive Director said: “Europe’s art history is rich and varied; we are all aware of Europe’s emblematic paintings but so many important and beautiful works are often not known outside of the countries that we live in. We want to give people across Europe the chance to discover those works alongside their more famous cousins, to explore their individual beauty as well as their wider significance. [For example Pyke Koch’s magisch realisme alongside Salvador Dali, or frescoes by Toma of Suceava from Moldavia alongside Da Vinci’s The Last Supper.] And to be able to do all of this online.”
Europeana.eu is Europe’s platform for digital cultural heritage. It brings together more than 40 million books, paintings, films, museum objects and archival records that have been digitised by cultural institutions throughout Europe.
The launch of Europeana channels will take this a step further, offering visitors a rich, curated journey through themed content, and with high quality digital images. And visitors will be able to explore different perspectives of a theme through the breadth of related content - for example an artist’s correspondence or others writing on an artist’s work could be items that can be explored alongside paintings. Europeana Art History channel will follow the launch of the Europeana Music Channel in late 2015.
Europeana Europeana is Europe's digital platform for cultural heritage, which collects and provides online access to tens of millions of digitised items from libraries, archives, audiovisual collections and museums across Europe. We are a network, representing more than 3000 cultural heritage organisations and a thousand individuals from these and other walks of life including the creative and technical sectors, passionate about bringing Europe's vast wealth of cultural heritage to the world. www.europeana.eu
Saturday, 16 January 2016
New and Improved Europeana Labs Now Open for Business
The revamped and relaunched Europeana Labs is now live: http://us3.campaign-archive2.com/?u=ad318b7566f97eccc895e014e&id=c9defde5e0&e=341f1b697e
The main improvements include:
New API features and improved documentation
The REST API has been extended with powerful features giving you the ability to search for and filter Europeana’s collections by what media files are directly available. For example, you can now retrieve just those records which have extra-large images, or maybe you're after high-quality audio files. Of course all these extra features can be combined with existing text, metadata and licensing filters. Read the 'how to' guide if you're a developer looking to access media files for your app, or explore the Europeana Collections to view and manually download individual items.
The Europeana Linked Open Data service has been updated to provide access to over 45 million items.
Explore, access and download metadata through our SPARQL endpoint. The Europeana OAI-PMH Service is now available in Beta. It uses the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH v2.0). Access to the service is limited. All three APIs also now have improved documentation thanks to the feedback we gathered from the developer community. >
A treasure trove of datasets
Digging for datasets that suit your needs can take time. Europeana's re-usable datasets are here to help. New filters mean you can fast-track to what you’re looking for in seconds, and refine content by theme. With over 80 sets to choose from - and new ones added each month - it’s an easy way to explore more than a million openly licensed, high resolution items ready for you to re-use.
Apps to inspire you
Sometimes, ideas and inspiration can be hard to come by. Europeana has designed an Apps Showcase to help you get your inventive juices flowing. You can now browse through more than 160 applications, clearly divided into three categories: end-user applications and creations, tools for directly working with the Europeana API and content (for example client libraries), and wider open source tools (50+ tools) in the FLOSS (Free Libre Open Source Software) directory. As with datasets, you can refine your search based on various filters and find extra information, as well as suitable documentation and code on GitHub.
Incubation
Europeana have designed a simple incubation process to help you with every stage on your path from an idea to a market-ready product. Play on-site - to get you started, you can find a list of physical labs Europeana's partnered with where together you can experiment with digital cultural content, build and test prototypes on-site.
Co-creation
Those interested in developing a prototype product and testing its feasibility can now make use of the co-creation services offered by our partner Platoniq. If you’re ready to take your prototype to the market, Europeana can help you try out alternative financing strategies and create a crowdfunding campaign.
Other highlights inclue the new media metadata methods, available on the main website and via the API - now you can search not just by text/metadata and licenses, but also by technical details for available media files - resolution and colour of images; bit-rate and length of audio clips; definition and length of video clips; file format; availability of full text; etc etc.
There are now 48 million items from 3,600+ providers whose content, when they've made it directly available, is indexed and discoverable in this way. That includes a whopping half a million openly licensed images over 4 megapixels. See:
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search?f%5BIMAGE_SIZE%5D%5B%5D=extra_large&f%5BREUSABILITY%5D%5B%5D=open&f%5BTYPE%5D%5B%5D=IMAGE&q=
http://labs.europeana.eu/api/console?function=search&query=*:*&reusability=open&qf=TYPE:IMAGE&qf=IMAGE_SIZE:extra_large&profile=rich
The main improvements include:
New API features and improved documentation
The REST API has been extended with powerful features giving you the ability to search for and filter Europeana’s collections by what media files are directly available. For example, you can now retrieve just those records which have extra-large images, or maybe you're after high-quality audio files. Of course all these extra features can be combined with existing text, metadata and licensing filters. Read the 'how to' guide if you're a developer looking to access media files for your app, or explore the Europeana Collections to view and manually download individual items.
The Europeana Linked Open Data service has been updated to provide access to over 45 million items.
Explore, access and download metadata through our SPARQL endpoint. The Europeana OAI-PMH Service is now available in Beta. It uses the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH v2.0). Access to the service is limited. All three APIs also now have improved documentation thanks to the feedback we gathered from the developer community. >
A treasure trove of datasets
Digging for datasets that suit your needs can take time. Europeana's re-usable datasets are here to help. New filters mean you can fast-track to what you’re looking for in seconds, and refine content by theme. With over 80 sets to choose from - and new ones added each month - it’s an easy way to explore more than a million openly licensed, high resolution items ready for you to re-use.
Apps to inspire you
Sometimes, ideas and inspiration can be hard to come by. Europeana has designed an Apps Showcase to help you get your inventive juices flowing. You can now browse through more than 160 applications, clearly divided into three categories: end-user applications and creations, tools for directly working with the Europeana API and content (for example client libraries), and wider open source tools (50+ tools) in the FLOSS (Free Libre Open Source Software) directory. As with datasets, you can refine your search based on various filters and find extra information, as well as suitable documentation and code on GitHub.
Incubation
Europeana have designed a simple incubation process to help you with every stage on your path from an idea to a market-ready product. Play on-site - to get you started, you can find a list of physical labs Europeana's partnered with where together you can experiment with digital cultural content, build and test prototypes on-site.
Co-creation
Those interested in developing a prototype product and testing its feasibility can now make use of the co-creation services offered by our partner Platoniq. If you’re ready to take your prototype to the market, Europeana can help you try out alternative financing strategies and create a crowdfunding campaign.
Other highlights inclue the new media metadata methods, available on the main website and via the API - now you can search not just by text/metadata and licenses, but also by technical details for available media files - resolution and colour of images; bit-rate and length of audio clips; definition and length of video clips; file format; availability of full text; etc etc.
There are now 48 million items from 3,600+ providers whose content, when they've made it directly available, is indexed and discoverable in this way. That includes a whopping half a million openly licensed images over 4 megapixels. See:
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search?f%5BIMAGE_SIZE%5D%5B%5D=extra_large&f%5BREUSABILITY%5D%5B%5D=open&f%5BTYPE%5D%5B%5D=IMAGE&q=
http://labs.europeana.eu/api/console?function=search&query=*:*&reusability=open&qf=TYPE:IMAGE&qf=IMAGE_SIZE:extra_large&profile=rich
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