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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...
View ArticlePandas, Press, Planetary
Panda researchers in China,wear panda costumes to give mother-like feeling to a lonely baby panda who lost her mother pic.twitter.com/OtUhV2UJTN — Earth Pics (@PicturesEarth) August 25, 2013 It has...
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Dataclimber explores colors in the Cooper Hewitt collection
Rubén Abad’s #museumselfie outside of a museum A few weeks ago we became aware of Rubén Abad’s poster which shows all the colours in our collection by decade. We sent a few questions over to Spain to...
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Why are we collecting source code?
(via http://rekall.tumblr.com/post/92033337743) Part of what we continue to work on in parallel to the opening of Cooper Hewitt is capacity building for the museum to collect ‘the present’ – which...
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The API at the center of the museum
Extract from “Outline map of New York Harbor & vicinity : showing main tidal flow, sewer outlets, shellfish beds & analysis points.”, New York Bay Pollution Commission, 1905. From New York...
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Labs turns three!
Happy birthday Cooper Hewitt Labs. Today Cooper Hewitt Labs turned three. Back in January 2012 this blog was just an experiment, a flag planted in rough terrain, but now what is actually the ‘Digital...
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Things people make with our API #347: Nick Bartzokas
Shortly after Cooper Hewitt opened on December 12, 2014, the museum hosted a private event. At that preliminary scoping for the event, I bumped into Nick Bartzokas who had written a spiffy little...
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From concept to video prototype: the early form of the Pen
It was in late 2012 that the concept for the Pen was pitched to the museum by Local Projects, working then as subcontractors to Diller Scofidio & Renfro. The concept portrayed the Pen as an...
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Understanding how the Pen interacts with the API
Detail of instructional postcard now available to museum visitors at entry to accompany The Pen. The Pen has been up and running now for five weeks and the museum as a whole has been coming to terms...
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100 days
Today marks the 100th day since the Pen started being distributed to visitors. Its been a wild ride and the latest figures are far beyond our estimations. As of today, Pens have been handed out to...
View Article5 months with the Pen: data, data, data
Its been five hectic months since the Pen started being distributed to visitors at the ticket counter, and we’ve been learning a lot. We last made some basic stats available at the 100 day mark, but...
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Content sharing and ambient display with Electric Objects EO1
Scenic panel El Dorado, designed by Joseph Fuchs, Eugène Ehrmann and Georges Zipélius and manufactured by Zuber & Cie , 1915-25, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. William Collis. From Cooper Hewitt Collection...
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Slowly improving Copyright clarity
Ever since the online collection first properly went live in 2012 our collection images had a little line under them that said “please don’t steal our images, yeah?”. Whilst it was often commented that...
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Why are we collecting source code?
(via http://rekall.tumblr.com/post/92033337743) Part of what we continue to work on in parallel to the opening of Cooper Hewitt is capacity building for the museum to collect ‘the present’ – which...
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The API at the center of the museum
Extract from “Outline map of New York Harbor & vicinity : showing main tidal flow, sewer outlets, shellfish beds & analysis points.”, New York Bay Pollution Commission, 1905. From New York...
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Labs turns three!
Happy birthday Cooper Hewitt Labs. Today Cooper Hewitt Labs turned three. Back in January 2012 this blog was just an experiment, a flag planted in rough terrain, but now what is actually the ‘Digital...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Things people make with our API #347: Nick Bartzokas
Shortly after Cooper Hewitt opened on December 12, 2014, the museum hosted a private event. At that preliminary scoping for the event, I bumped into Nick Bartzokas who had written a spiffy little...
View ArticleClik here to view.
From concept to video prototype: the early form of the Pen
It was in late 2012 that the concept for the Pen was pitched to the museum by Local Projects, working then as subcontractors to Diller Scofidio & Renfro. The concept portrayed the Pen as an...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Understanding how the Pen interacts with the API
Detail of instructional postcard now available to museum visitors at entry to accompany The Pen. The Pen has been up and running now for five weeks and the museum as a whole has been coming to terms...
View ArticleClik here to view.
100 days
Today marks the 100th day since the Pen started being distributed to visitors. Its been a wild ride and the latest figures are far beyond our estimations. As of today, Pens have been handed out to...
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