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Rethinking the museum collection online.
Rethinking the museum collection online.
In the coming months, we’ll be talking quite a bit about two projects currently in production — our website redesign and, running alongside…
Shelley Bernstein
Apr 11, 2017
Breaking away from TMS
Breaking away from TMS
A visit to the Barnes means discovering unexpected and exciting contrasts between works from different eras, places and cultures. At…
Sam Tarakajian
Apr 13, 2017
Avoiding the Backend Monolith with Seneca.js
Avoiding the Backend Monolith with Seneca.js
In our last post, we talked about our strategy for presenting the Barnes collection online. We talked about TMS (The Museum System) and how…
Cassie Tarakajian
Apr 27, 2017
Elasticsurf is not a Made Up Word
Elasticsurf is not a Made Up Word
I want you to imagine something. Imagine you’re out on the ocean, surfing. You catch a big, beautiful wave, and then, riding it to shore…
Sam Tarakajian
May 11, 2017
Why data is easier than gardening: using Kibana to understand art
Why data is easier than gardening: using Kibana to understand art
For my birthday last year, a friend bought me an herb garden.
Sam Tarakajian
May 24, 2017
Stuffed animals, computer vision, and the Barnes Foundation collection online.
Stuffed animals, computer vision, and the Barnes Foundation collection online.
Things have been going swimmingly over here as we build out the Barnes collection online. I’ve been astonished at just how much easier and…
Shelley Bernstein
Jun 6, 2017
The art of looking (through the eyes of a computer).
The art of looking (through the eyes of a computer).
As an art historian, it has never occurred to me that I would care about what a computer “sees” when it looks at art. I mean, I’ve spent…
Martha Lucy
Jul 12, 2017
Computer vision so good.
Computer vision so good.
Many of you are following the stories about the revamp of our collection online and the use of computer vision to create needed keywords…
Shelley Bernstein
Aug 16, 2017
The complexity of visual elements in digital connections.
The complexity of visual elements in digital connections.
I’m not going to sugar coat this one — this has been a technically complex project. This complexity is in our use of computer vision to…
Shelley Bernstein
Oct 19, 2017
Honoring the ensemble by design.
Honoring the ensemble by design.
Now that you can explore our soft launch, it’s a good time to talk about the design choices that were made. We’ve written at length about…
Shelley Bernstein
Oct 24, 2017
Using computer vision to tag the collection.
Using computer vision to tag the collection.
Throughout our collection project we’ve talked about the use of computer vision and machine learning to help us determine visual…
Shelley Bernstein
Oct 26, 2017
Open Access at the Barnes.
Open Access at the Barnes.
Throughout the conceptualization of our collection project our general counsel has also been working behind the scenes to help us provide…
Shelley Bernstein
Oct 31, 2017
Barnes Collection Online: #PortraitChallenge via @StudioTeaBreak
Barnes Collection Online: #PortraitChallenge via @StudioTeaBreak
We released the collection online last week and overnight we saw a few things happen with newly minted open access. One was a virtual…
Shelley Bernstein
Nov 14, 2017
Barnes Collection Online: Andrei Taraschuk and @the_barnes_bot
Barnes Collection Online: Andrei Taraschuk and @the_barnes_bot
Earlier in the week I posted about a drawing challenge that happened on Twitter as a result of our open access collection launch. Today…
Shelley Bernstein
Nov 16, 2017
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