RIJKSSTUDIO

and the Idea of "Public Humanities"

Anna-Sophia Zingarelli-Sweet

LIS2975: Digital Scholarship

University of Pittsburgh

13 November 2013

Julie Ellison

Humanities Indicators Prototype: The Humanities in American Life

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

2013

developed out of town/gown relationships
but "the actual making of public culture through humanistic projects cannot be carried out in colleges and universities alone; it can move forward only through collaborations across sectors."

What does "Public" mean?

"because the production of cultural knowledge is changing"
partnerships among universities, cultural heritage institutions, community groups
shift in understanding of who creates culture, who consumes culture, and how they consume it

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Opened in 1800
National museum of the Netherlands
Initially formed from viceregal collection
Mission: "At the Rijksmuseum, art and history take on new meaning for a broad-based, contemporary national and international audience."

Begun 2012
To celebrate 1st anniversary, initiated "Rijksstudio Award" for best original creation
Networked gigapixel image technology?

as of April 2013:

92,000 users
110,000 collections
3,180,000 visits from 2,330,000 unique visitors
average time spent looking at each image: 9min
(compared to estimates that a visitor in a museum will spend max 30 seconds in front of an object)

Bulletin des Bibliothèques de France 58:5

By Anna-Sophia Zingarelli-Sweet

cultural heritage + metadata + climate resilience