Katie Rawson andTrevor Muñoz are scholars researching questions about food and culture using the historical menu collections from the New York Public Library. In this interview, learn more about their project, Curating Menus, and what they've learned from working with the library's data. Katie Rawson is the CLIR Bollinger Fellow in Library Innovation at the [...]
If you've happened to visit the Cooper Hewitt since its recent renovation, you'll have noticed a complete transformation of the visitor experience into a participatory digital experience that puts museum items right into the palm of the hand. At the center of this considerable technical challenge was Micah Walter of the museum's digital team. He [...]
In this first installment of a two-part interview, Cooper Hewitt's Micah Walter discusses the value of making a museum's data more "open" and available for public use. Opening Museum Data Micah explains that the Cooper Hewitt decided several years ago to take the bold step of opening up its collection data via API and licensing [...]
[http://openglam.org] Lieke Ploeger, OpenGLAM I am with the Open Knowledge Foundation, which is an organization working on promoting open data in a variety of fields. I work for one of the working groups for Open Knowledge which is called OpenGLAM, which is what I will be talking about mainly for best practices. Open Knowledge set up these working groups as a way [...]
