District of Columbia Releases Digital Collection of District’s Fine and Public Art Collections
From the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities:
[Recently] the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (DCCAH) has launched a new eMuseum that makes the District’s fine art and public art collections available to the public in digital format for the first time.
The site will catalogue more than 2,800 pieces of the District’s Art Bank fine arts collection, as well as public artworks commissioned by the DC government. Users will be able to search by different criteria, including artist name, media and year of creation.
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The new site is part of innoMAYtion, Mayor Muriel Bowser’s month-long initiative that showcases DC’s innovation ecosystem.
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Currently, 40% of the collection is available to view online. The total collection will be online by the end of 2016. Public artworks commissioned by the District will also be viewable online.
Visitors to the site will have the option to register for a free account to save their favorite works, as well as share artworks on social media networks.
Direct to eMuseum
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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