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Walters Art Museum upgrades collections website
The Walters Art Museum has launched a major upgrade to its collections website. It includes nearly 5,000 searchable objects available to the public — whether local or across the globe. This is a dramatic increase over the approximately 800 objects of the previous version. As part of a larger Walters technology initiative, this site allows everyone from a casual virtual visitor to a renowned researcher to browse works of art records from antiquity to the 19th century by categories such as artist, medium and provenance. You can still browse to our collections website the same way that you did to the old one, which this one has replaced. Just click on “works of art” from any page on the Walters website.
It is available at http://art.thewalters.org .
The new works of art site is easy to search and includes the ability to zoom in on object details, create personal art galleries and describe images using keyword tags. New objects can be added to the website daily. In addition, users can subscribe to two syndicated feeds (RSS feeds)—one is an “Object of the Day” feed featuring an artwork highlighted on the site’s homepage, and the second is a feed of new objects as they are added to the collections website.
Please share links to the website, and talk about the site, you can help to bring a larger audience to our online collection.
Another fun way to use this website is to add tags to the works of art. When you’re looking at an image of a work of art, below it there is a box labeled “tags”. For your tag, write a word that comes to mind when you see this work of art. The button there will save your word. You can do this as many times as you like. By adding tags, you make it just a little easier for users to move through the online collection, in an associative way.
Questions and comments are certainly welcome. If you have any ideas for new features of this website, please share them with dkinnett@thewalters.org. If you come upon any technical difficulties with the site, please share those as well (if you do, please include the web address of the page that gave you trouble).
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Dylan Kinnett: Web & Social Media Manager at The Walters Art Museum
contact | dkinnett@thewalters.org
600 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21201
ph: 410.547.9000 x278 | fax: 410.727.7591
It is available at http://art.thewalters.org .
The new works of art site is easy to search and includes the ability to zoom in on object details, create personal art galleries and describe images using keyword tags. New objects can be added to the website daily. In addition, users can subscribe to two syndicated feeds (RSS feeds)—one is an “Object of the Day” feed featuring an artwork highlighted on the site’s homepage, and the second is a feed of new objects as they are added to the collections website.
Please share links to the website, and talk about the site, you can help to bring a larger audience to our online collection.
Another fun way to use this website is to add tags to the works of art. When you’re looking at an image of a work of art, below it there is a box labeled “tags”. For your tag, write a word that comes to mind when you see this work of art. The button there will save your word. You can do this as many times as you like. By adding tags, you make it just a little easier for users to move through the online collection, in an associative way.
Questions and comments are certainly welcome. If you have any ideas for new features of this website, please share them with dkinnett@thewalters.org. If you come upon any technical difficulties with the site, please share those as well (if you do, please include the web address of the page that gave you trouble).
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Dylan Kinnett: Web & Social Media Manager at The Walters Art Museum
contact | dkinnett@thewalters.org
600 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21201
ph: 410.547.9000 x278 | fax: 410.727.7591
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