https://digitalcurator.art/
"The Digital Curator application allows you to explore the art collections of
Central European museums and search for artworks based on specific motifs.
Users of the application can build their combination of objects and reveal how
often the subject has occurred across the centuries, view graphics, drawings,
or paintings that represent it in different epochs, and compare data with other
themes.
The Digital Curator offers a quantitative view of cultural history based on the
frequency of symbols and iconographic themes in many artifacts, not on a
detailed observation of individual items. This distant viewing can be
especially useful if our interest is aimed at exploring a genre, rather than a
specific work, to understand the overall social conditions, rather than the
life of a particular artist, or to interpret the overall political situation,
rather than the views of the selected author. Exploring big cultural-historical
data may bring new insights into abstract social phenomena such as cultural and
economic influence, canon issues, the relationship between the center and the
periphery, or the functioning of the art market. It can also help us better
observe the migration of motifs and their takeover across centuries and distant
regions.
The Digital Curator database now contains 158456 works from the collections of
90 museums from Austria, Bavaria, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. 33750 of
these works are available under an open license, so it is possible to view them
online. Other works are used only as a basis for statistics, presenting the
frequency of occurrence of motifs. The AI library for machine learning
TensorFlow and the computer service Google Cloud including the tool Google
Cloud Vision were used for the automatic detection of the depicted motifs. Data
search and storage is performed using the ElasticSearch database and the
operation of the application is provided by the Google App Engine service."
Via Esther Schindler.
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
