I was just at Mona* (David Walsh's Museum of Old and New Art, reviewed
at http://bit.ly/18x5wuI ) and while the museum experience was
generally ace and did a good job of joining my physical visit to
online artworks after my visit, their website doesn't provide any form
of URL, let alone a permanent, well-identified label/URI for artworks,
so it's hard for me to save or share information about the artworks I
saw.
It's ages since I've looked for this, but the web analytics for some
museum collections show searches for specific accession numbers. They
may be from print books or catalogues, or from in-gallery labels, but
certainly some people use them to find out more about specific museum
objects. I'd be curious to hear from anyone who can take a few moments
to look for accession numbers/IDs in what's left of search referrer
terms and on-site searches.
Cheers, Mia
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On 28 October 2013 21:56, James Morley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Looking at the other side of Mike's question can I ask how everyone
> uniquely identifies objects online? Can IDs be found
> - within URLs
> - in page metadata
> - in visible page content
> - in API queries/results?
>
> Are there any online collections that don't present an identifier at all?
> Or perhaps have a different id for the item online to what might be
> presented in gallery?
>
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> James Morley
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>
>> On Oct 28, 2013 11:45 AM, "Mike Ellis" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> I was down at Tate St Ives yesterday and being an interesting kind of
>>> person (~cough~) I started looking at - and searching for - accession
>>> numbers from the gallery labels using Google.
>>>
>>> I was wondering if:
>>>
>>> 1) your institution always / sometimes / never puts accession numbers or
>>> unique ID's on-gallery
>>>
>>> and
>>>
>>> 2) whether your institution always / sometimes / never makes sure it has
>>> online catalogue entries for items that end up being on-gallery.
>>>
>>> My in-depth research (of about 5 pictures) at the Tate seemed to indicate
>>> that everything I looked for was on their online catalogue with the
>>> exception of the borrowed items which [obviously] weren't.
>>>
>>> Anyway - any thoughts / info / anecdotes / research would make most
>>> interesting reading to me..
>>>
>>> thanks!
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>>
>>>
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