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🧵In our research project – Browser Art - Navigating with style (NwS) – we analyse artistic browsers in their aesthetic expression as well as their techno-historical setting. We are an interdisciplinary team @KITKarlsruhe 
NwS | As art historians, computer scientists, artistic researchers we approach the works from multiple angles:
NwS | comparing their visual output with conventional browsers, the source code, visualisations of the discovered processes and we can draw from enriching and interesting conversations with the artists.
The National Gallery of Art now has a public #OpenData program: Most of the NGA's collection data is now on Github and released under a CC0 license!
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#DigitalArtHistory #DigSMus #CulturalAnalytics #CC0 @medievalben @ngadc
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#DigitalArtHistory #DigSMus #CulturalAnalytics #CC0 @medievalben @ngadc
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Now let's see: 1st there is a documentation as docx (thanks), then a folder of sql tables (interesting) and one with zipped csv files. Let's pick objects.csv and see what's inside...
@janecalexander
github.com/NationalGaller…
@janecalexander
github.com/NationalGaller…
Ah, there are 28 columns (properties) with 135,715 rows (objects). Great!
Creation date is split in begin and end date, the oldest -490, i.e. b.c. Median: 1933, Mean: 1868.
"accessioned" is always "1".
@nealstimler
Creation date is split in begin and end date, the oldest -490, i.e. b.c. Median: 1933, Mean: 1868.
"accessioned" is always "1".
@nealstimler
Border Crossing, the biennial symposium of the Historians of Islamic Art Association, is happening Oct 25–27 at @Yale. Zainab Bahrani of Columbia U. will keynote. @HIAA_art
More details here: hiaa2018.yale.edu
#medievaltwitter : check out this panel on 'Medieval Translations,' including papers Toledo's choir screen panels, Ethiopian rock-cut churches, and Islamic textiles in 13th-c. England
