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hbyel

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About hbyel

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    Comment #49005989

    You can use the search button (left panel top) to filter arcs by place/collection. The left panel functions more like map navigation, while the search/command palette is a separate…

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    Comment #48991568

    Thanks, you can filter by source in the search panel already.

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    Comment #48990475

    [flagged]

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    Comment #48989738

    Fair point, and a good idea. A visual marker distinguishing "has open data" from "doesn't" would meaningfully reduce that distortion. Adding it to the list.

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    Comment #48989727

    thanks, agreed, will fix :)

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    Comment #48989715

    [flagged]

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    Comment #48989368

    Thanks! You actually can filter by source already, search lets you filter arcs by place/site. Destination filtering technically works too, via Collections, but that only makes sens…

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    Comment #48989242

    Fair catch, it only pulls from institutions with open access APIs (Met, V&A, SMB Berlin, AIC). Not aware of an equivalent from Japanese museums, if you know one, happy to add it.

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    Comment #48989216

    Correct, scoped to western/euro-american museums as noted in the post, it’s just where I started. Open to expanding if there’s good open data to pull from.

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    Show HN: Ex Situ – Open-source spatial index of displaced cultural artifacts

    Hi, I designed and developed a spatial index that maps museum artefacts as connecting arcs/hyperlinks from their origin site to institutional location/sources. The Index specifical…

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