MK&G

Ornament Explorer

Philo van Kemenade

Ornament

Exemplary Beauty

13.10.23 – 28.4.24

Exhibition view "Ornament  –  Exemplary Beauty", MK&G, photo: Henning Rogge

Ornament Explorer

 

In-gallery tablet app for Ornament Exhibition
Oct 2023 - April 2024

 

12058 Ornamental Objects from the collection

 

Powered by:
Laravel, Vue, MySQL, Weaviate Vector DB

 

demo

repo

create schema

search

$data = $weaviate->graphql()->get('{
  Get {
    Ornament (
      offset: 1
      limit: '.$limit.'
      nearObject: {
        id: "'.$object_id.'"
      }
      '.$exclude_query.'
    ) {
      identifier
      _additional {
        distance
      }
    }
  }
}');
$schema = [
    'class' => $this->className,
    'description' => 'Images of different objects featuring ornamental details',
    'moduleConfig' => [
        'img2vec-neural' => [
            'imageFields' => ['image'],
        ],
    ],
    'vectorIndexType' => 'hnsw',
    'vectorizer' => 'img2vec-neural',
    'properties' => [
        [
            'name' => 'identifier',
            'dataType' => ['string'],
            'tokenization' => 'field',
            'description' => 'id of the item',
        ],
        [
            'name' => 'image',
            'dataType' => ['blob'],
            'description' => 'image',
        ],
    ]
];

$response = $weaviate->schema()->createClass($schema);

How this came about...

🙌 collaboration FTW

Objects of the month

spring

views

looking for photographs

3210 records

filered for iconography containing "blumen"

blumen.csv
images_blumen/
proof of concept (flask)
API
def cosine_similarity(vecA, vecB):
  return  np.dot(vecA,vecB)/(norm(vecA)*norm(vecB))

Choose Your Own Object

 

functional prototype for visitors

 

start with a curated object,
walk through the collection
along 2 axes (both metadata)

 

tested in gallery, positive responses

MK&G Ornament Explorer

By Philo van Kemenade

MK&G Ornament Explorer

I participated in the Neo Lab Data Exploration Sprint hosted by the Museum fur Kunst & Gewerbe in Hamburg. In an intense weeklong sprint, we analysed their (partially openly licensed) collection data and explored different ways of scrutinising, visualising, and accessing records in their collections. Specifically, I looked at visual similarities for exploration, search and recommendation. https://www.mkg-hamburg.de/en/neo-lab#toc-open-call-data-exploration-sprint

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