#art #museums #GLAM #ModernArt

'The Neue Galerie, a private museum in New York’s Upper East Side run by collector Ronald S. Lauder, will merge with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, making yet another major expansion of the latter institution’s modern art offerings.'

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/neue-galerie-met-museum-merger-ronald-lauder-1234785465/

Virgin and Child Crowned by Angels by Colijn de Coter (1490-95)

@visualarts

Art Institute of Chicago
#ArtHistory #MedievalArt #religion #Christianity #MuseumArchive #glam #ArtMuseum #catholicism

❤️‍🔥"Ahora soy militante cultural" El asociacionismo #GLAM desde dentro de las tripas de BAMAD Galicia contado por
Fátima Canosa: "funciona gracias a una red invisible de profesionales que hacen mucho más de lo que “les toca""

https://www.biblogtecarios.es/fatimacanosa/ahora-soy-militante-cultural/

#asociacionismo #GLAM #bibliotecas #archivos #documentacion

#comedy #MelBrooks #archives #PersonalArchives #GLAM

'The career of Mel Brooks will be preserved in Jamestown. The National Comedy Center announced Wednesday the museum will be home to the legendary comedian and satirist's career archive.'

https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/entertainment-news/mel-brooks-donates-career-archives-to-comedy-center/71-18c80d05-36ec-42b9-8eaf-e9b8d231ed8f

WGRZ: Comedian Mel Brooks donates career archives to National Comedy Center. “The career of Mel Brooks will be preserved in Jamestown. The National Comedy Center announced Wednesday the museum will be home to the legendary comedian and satirist’s career archive. The set is made up of 150,000 creative & production documents and 5,000 photos, some of which have never been seen by the public.”

National Library of Finland: Principles for Finnish Web Archive content selection published. “The National Library of Finland is responsible for the diverse and representative preservation of online material. To make this work more transparent, we produced a document entitled Content selection for the Finnish Web Archive, outlining the principles for content selection in thematic and continuous […]

Calvary by the Master of the Death of St. Nicholas of Münster (1470-80) oil on panel

@traditional_art

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
#ArtMuseum #glam #religion #ReligiousStudies #christianity #AnimalsInArt

Maintenance begins at creation, so why are we not creating better?

The beats are the same. You work for government, or academia (lets face it, that’s probably where 90% of the work is) you have a deliverable; you save it; you print to PDF; you store it on an institutional repository with some metadata (or Zenodo, OSF or equivalent) and its done.

There’s a small chance that it’s FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) right? It has metadata that can be discovered by an audience looking for it and can be indexed by search engines. The data is potentially accessible if published correctly. They’re not particularly interoperable or easily converted, and PDFs aren’t really designed for reuse, even if tools like Apache Tika help ease the burden of extracting artifacts. It’s just a PDF, why are we even talking about FAIR? There begins a story…

The beats are the same, yet, we work in digital preservation, our backgrounds are in GLAM or software, why do we want to shoot ourselves in the foot? Why are we not using our skills to create better?