lab.SNG
researching the possibilities of digital technologies in the gallery and museum context
on-line catalog of artworks from the collections of Slovak galleries
Igor Rjabinin
Slovak National Gallery
lab.SNG
lab.SNG
4 developers
2 digital asset managers
1 conent/web editor
Webumenia.sk is an on-line catalog of artworks from the collections of Slovak galleries
Launch: 2015 (64.000 artworks)
Elastic Search, Laravel, Bootstrap,
IIP + OpenSeaDragon ...
Getting the data in
art&artists records
collection management system → OAI-PMH (oai_dc, ulan) → spice harvester → db → elastic search index
images
IIP image server → Open Sea Dragon
making it easy
☺unified vocabulary
☺consistent data
☺one schema
Klaus and Mečiar discussing the division of Czechoslovakia at Vila Tugendhat
Czechoslovakia 1993
Made in Czechoslovakia: Alexandra Kusá (SNG) & Jan Press (Moravian gallery) at the Villa Tugendhat.Photo credit: Kiva
Czechia & Slovakia 2017
Getting (new) data in
records
collection management system → csv → csv importer→ db → elastic search index
images
jp2 conversion (Kakadu) → Open Sea Dragon
"it's complicated"
different language
no single vocabulary, classification, no IDs
missing artist records
more than one schema
Web umenia is being taken up by more and more galleries. There is a lively network emerging, not because of a grant scheme, or the possibility to make money, but because our colleagues see that it works and they want to make it work for them too.
Alexandra Kusá, General Director SNG
https://github.com/SlovakNationalGallery/web-umenia-2
Collaboration with other institutions
Online collections landscape
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webumenia.sk - on-line catalog of artworks from the collections of Slovak galleries
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webumenia.sk - on-line catalog of artworks from the collections of Slovak galleries
Workshop: Visualization of transnational networks in the artistic centers of the Habsburg monarchy - using the example of sculpture around 1900, Vienna
