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Story: EC to rival Google with massive digital library
Posted by: Samuel, UK (Monday 3 October 2005, 9:34 PM)
I'm sure France had something to do with this decision. Coinsodetally enough I just got an email back today from the Tate art gallery when I uploaded an example of one their pictures which I then filled full of meta-data like the artist, the story on that page, exhibition date and location etc... They seemed in agreement and were already considdering something like this, but its a question of resources.
The EC does have the resources but they can't do it all, they really should provide the finances to established areas of culture like the arts so they can devote their time and effort to digitise their often hidden archives.
I think its paramount that meta-data is heavily used and uniformly, already there is a standard software package from adlibsoft.com that is designed for museum archives but this is not available to the small galleries that really contain the nook-and-cranny sects of culture that can be lost, and the money to pay people to enter it.
I can see all the Luvre stuff getting in and the Tate but what about the £10,000 a year voulantry Generator Projects gallery, will they be a part of this? They should be, it has had some good stuff!
And what about the way people view the info, i've seen some bad UI's in my time and the EU website is nothing to should about, what about using something like Google Earth and have 3D buildings which can be zoomed into, and the work presented on the building walls on in desk draws, if an international effort were made to provide easy 3D design tools with maybe templates of houses put out by the planning department, many houses hhave a similar layout, argos could putup 3d models of their popular furniture and people could design their own houses like they do webpages now, scan their work in and just like flying past buildings I could go to someones house virtually and see their work presented in their room.
A bit far fetched, i dont think so, museums could go virtual, I hate seeing a Tate advertisement and being at the other end of the country, I want to pay the £4 entry fee and see it from my desktop, maybe chat to others there, buy a PDF booklet after, get temp access to their archive, have a cup of virtual tea and get some free TXT messages :)
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