This document summarizes an Ignite Talk presentation about connecting art collections and data across borders between the Slovak National Gallery and the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Norway. The presentation describes a project that facilitated skills and technology sharing between the institutions, including workshops in Bratislava and Oslo and an Art Data Hackathon in Bratislava. The goal was to promote open access to digital collections and data.

1. IGNITE TALKS
ROUND 3
#AGM 2016

2. From Slovakia to Norway: Art,
collections and data across borders
Michal Čudrnák | digital collections | lab.sng.sk
Slovak National Gallery
Europeana Network Association AGM 2016, 8. – 9. 11. 2016

3. Slovak National Gallery

4. Nasjonalmuseet
The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design

5. SNG | www.webumenia.sk

6. Nasjonalmuseet | samling.nasjonalmuseet.no

7. Nasjonalmuseet | Skissebook

8. SNG | Skicáre

9. Skrik | Výkrik
Edward Munch – Skrik
Nasjonalmuseet
http://samling.nasjonalmuseet.no/en/object/NG.M.00939
Milan Sokol - Výkrik - Hommage à Edvard Munch
Orava gallery
http://www.webumenia.sk/dielo/SVK:OGD.G_1762

10. Art, collections and data across borders
June 2016 – December 2016
http://www.sng.sk/en/research/projects/art-
collections-and-data-across-borders
Goals
• skills sharing (online collections, cms, lab)
• technology sharing (Open Sea Dragon,API)
Events
• Workshops (Bratislava, Oslo)
• Hackathon (Bratislava)
Supported by:

11. Art Data Hackathon | 7. – 8. 10. 2016
Video: https://vimeo.com/184974019

12. Art Data Hackathon | Klima app
More: https://hackdash.org/dashboards/artdata

13. Art Data Hackathon | vampart.webumenia.sk
https://vampart.webumenia.sk/

14. PHOTOCONSORTIUM
the Tomorrows of All our Yesterdays
Europeana AGM 2016 - Riga

15. EuropeanaPhotography Legacy

16. Over 450,000 early photographs
selection, digitization, enrichment, ingestion to Europeana

17. Anonymous | Firenze (Italy), 1899 - Gelatin dry plate
The luminous portrait studio of the Alinari brothers' photographic
establishment. On the left: photographer Gaetano Puccini.
Highest quality digitisation

18. Digitisation goals
• Discovery
• Collection
• Preservation
• Publication
– For Research
– For Education
– For Public Access
• Reuse
Rogier Van der Weyden 1436 –
Art History collection – KU Leuven Imaging Lab

19. Fotomuseum Antwerp Silver gelatin print ca. 1910
Multilingual Thesaurus
over 500 concepts related to photography
structured in a multifaceted, hierarchical way
16 languages: Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese,
Danish, Dutch, English, French, German,
Hebrew, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian,
Slovak, Spanish, Ukrainian

20. All Our Yesterdays
Exhibition
People’s everyday life, joys and
sorrows, stories and dreams
turn out to have been strikingly
similar to ours.
All Our Yesterdays presents the
most exquisite, often unseen,
images of a world in change,
demonstrating the mastery and
art of the very first
photographers. Pawet Mussil, Krakow, Poland
1932 Silver Gelatin Print
Zofia Mussil

21. Palazzo Lanfranchi, Pisa

22. Leuven, Winter 2015

23. Maurice-Louis Branger | Paris (France), 1925 Young women at a café terrace. © Maurice-Louis Branger / Roger-Viollet
TELLING THE STORIES … OF THE CITY LIVES

24. Anonymous | Salantai, Kretinga district (Lithuania), ca. 1928 Expressive group portrait of Balonas Šmuilis (standing) and his team of shoe makers in the Salantų
Balonas Šmuilis workshop. © Kretingos muziejus / Kretinga Museum
THE ART OF THE PORTRAIT

25. Anonymous | Bratislava (Slovakia), 1925 Dressed-up children taking part in city celebrations. © Museum of the City of Bratislava
YESTERDAY’S CHILDREN …

26. Holger Damgaard | Vigerslev (Denmark), 01/11/1919 An image capturing the chaos and drama of the Vigerslev train crash. © POLFOTO
… HARDSHIP & DRAMA

27. Karl Heinrich Lämmel | Koblenz (Germany), 1930s With the Köln Düsseldorfer white fleet on the river Rhine. © Karl Heinrich Lämmel / United Archives
THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER …

28. Mario Castagneri | via Passarella - Milan, 1922 Vittoria Castagneri with a reflex camera in Mario Castagneri's studio. © Alinari Archives, Firenze
THE PHOTOGRAPHER AT WORK

29. Tage Christensen | orthern Zealand (Denmark), 1930s Gelatin dry plate Women at a beach. © POLFOTO
… JOY & LEISURE

30. John Topham | Swanscombe (United Kingdom), 1938 Lovers Lane, Swanscombe. © John Topham / TopFoto.co.uk
A BRAVE NEW WORLD

31. Digitisation issues
• Curation
• Identification
• Metadata
• Privacy
• Copyrights
Lähetystyöntekijöiden lapsia Swakopmundin koulun, luokkahuoneessa. and Vinetassa –
National Board of Antiquities Finland
#AllezCulture
CULTURAL RIGHTS!

32. Engaging the Public Pisa

33. WORKSHOPS

34. Photography Channel in the DSI

35. Lladó Aliu, Manel / El Punt – Fábrica Grober S.A. Ajuntament de Girona CC-BY-NC-ND
The Pleasure of Plenty

36. Jeune femme à l'ombrelle : portrait en pied] : [photographie] / [Clément Maurice] | Clément Maurice
Bibliothèque nationale de France – Public Domain
The Art of the
Portrait

37. www.photoconsortium.net
info@photoconsortium.net
PHOTOCONSORTIUM NEEDS YOU!!!!
Sir John Herschel Photogravure after Julia Margaret Cameron

38. #DataFullofLife
Jasenka Zajec, Sofija Klarin Zadravec, Karolina
Holub, Renata Petrušić
National and University Library in Zagreb
digitalna.nsk.hr

40. NSK Digital Collections
http://digitalna.nsk.hr

41. #FullofCollections (and collection metadata)

42. #FullofProjects (and project metadata)

43. #FullofInformationObjects

44. #FullofLanguages (and language metadata)

45. #FullofAuthors

46. #FullofIdentifiers

47. #FullofSubjects (Persons)

48. #FullofPlaces

49. Biography
Identifiers
Context
Works
Subject

50. Bringing the scientist Bošković closer to our
users
Biography
Bibliography
Works Subject

51. ”Matoš and me”
Campaign
Interesting facts about Matoš you
may not know
And the writer
Matoš even closer

52. ”Matoš and me” Campaign
User generated content

53. #DataFullofLife
1711 Born in Dubrovnik
1721 Moved to Rome
1734 First book published
1765 …

54. #DataFullofLife

55. Thank you!
digitalna.nsk.hr
digitalna@nsk.hr

70. RE:VIVE | a “dating website” for
archives and artists
RE:VIVE seeks to meld the worlds of archives and electronic musicians by facilitating
the creation of new works. We want to change the way people hear the past.
www.revivethis.org
@_rev1ve
Gregory Markus

71. https://youtu.be/nKjqMEoixws
https://youtu.be/nKjqMEoixws

72. RE:VIVE | a “dating website” for
archives and artists
RE:VIVE seeks to meld the worlds of archives and electronic musicians by facilitating
the creation of new works. We want to change the way people hear the past.
www.revivethis.org
@_rev1ve
Gregory Markus