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El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour

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Re: El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour

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Post by speps »

I really wish these projects, usually financed partially by European grants and other such schemes (aka tax payers), would release the raw data and let people develop their own experience with it.

Open data from museums are the only way I can see it being archived for the long term benefit of society.

PS: why the downvotes? It's literally written at the end but there's no download link anywhere...

> Funded with the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRPP), Spain’s Next Generation EU financing and according to the initiatives within the component C.24.I3 Digitization and valorization of major cultural services, included in Prado Training as an Inclusive experience of visit.

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Post by dmje »

speps wrote: post #2

I really wish these projects, usually financed partially by European grants and other such schemes (aka tax payers), would release the raw data and let people develop their own experience with it. Open data from museums are the only way I can see it being archived for the long term benefit of society. PS: why the downvotes? It's literally written at the end but there's no download link anywhere... > Funded with the N…

Many, many museums release their collections databases as open API’s, and many of the artworks are licensed under open licenses.

That’s not to say they couldn’t do more - but it’s a very active area in many museums.

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Post by Animats »

Apple has one of those tours for their museum.[1] Apple used to be big on that. They called it "Quicktime VR"(1998) [2] The main application today is real estate sales.[3]

[1] https://applemuseum360.com

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTime_VR

[3] https://www.sothebysrealty.com/eng/sales/int/virtualtour3d-f...

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speps wrote: post #2

I really wish these projects, usually financed partially by European grants and other such schemes (aka tax payers), would release the raw data and let people develop their own experience with it. Open data from museums are the only way I can see it being archived for the long term benefit of society. PS: why the downvotes? It's literally written at the end but there's no download link anywhere... > Funded with the N…

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Re: El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour

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Post by thomastjeffery »

It's cool to have a virtual tour of open gallery space, but it would be orders of magnitude cooler to have a virtual tour of the works in a museum's collection that are not on view.

Most museums are only able to show a few dozen or hundred works in their galleries at a time, but store thousands of works in their collection. In an effort to accommodate this reality, many museums publish a freely available database of their collection. There isn't really a standard practice for creating, maintaining, and publishing these databases, so it really depends on each museum's collections team to do that work; and it will always be a relatively low priority. Digital exhibitions could radically change that.

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