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Albers boxes
We have a lot of objects in our collection. Unfortunately we are also lacking images for many of those same objects. There are a variety of reasons why we might not have an image for something in our...
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"All your color are belong to Giv"
Today we enabled the ability to browse the collections website by color. Yay! Don’t worry — you can also browse by colour but since the Cooper-Hewitt is part of the Smithsonian I will continue to use...
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Little Printer Experiments
We are fans of the Little Printer here in das labs, so when it was released last year and our Printers arrived, we started brainstorming ideas for a Cooper-Hewitt publication. In a nutshell Little...
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"cmd-P"
I made us a print stylesheet for object pages on the collections website. (What does that mean? It means you can print out the webpage and it will look nice). Printout of Object #18621871.. before...
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Welcome to object phone. Your call has been placed in a queue.
I made another small thing. Again, another way for me to experiment with the Collection API, and again, another way to experiment with new ways of accessing the collection. This time, there aren’t many...
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tms-tools == this is a blog post about code
icebergs are kind of like giant underwater unicorns when you think about it tms-tools This is a blog post about code. Which means it’s really a blog post about data. tms-tools is a suite of libraries...
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We won an award
The annual international gathering that is Museums and the Web has just passed and this year we were lucky enough to win one of the Best of the Web Awards in the Research/Collections category. We are...
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And another award!
This time we picked up a Gold award from the American Association of Museum’s Media and Technology MUSE awards. We won in the ‘APIs and applications’ category against some stiff competition from some...
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Default Sort, or what would Shannon do?
Claude Shannon Up until recently our collections website displayed search results ordered by, well, nothing in particular. This wasn’t necessarily by design, we just didn’t have any idea of how we...
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A Timeline of Event Horizons
We’ve added a new experimental feature to the collections website. It’s an interactive visualization depicting when an object was produced and when that object was collected using some of the major...
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