Now we are here:
Czech & Slovak galleries online
Michal Čudrnák
Slovak National Gallery
lab.SNG
lab.SNG
4 developers
2 digital asset managers
1 conent/web editor
Collections online archeology
"database gateway" (1998 - 2008)
web umenia (2010 - 2015)
Two Landscapes: Picture of Slovakia
Webumenia.sk is an on-line catalog of artworks from the collections of Slovak galleries
Launch: 2015 (64.000 artworks)
Elastic Search, Laravel, Bootstrap
Open Sea Dragon ...
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
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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
Online collections landscape
