muse-tech-central

A collection of open-source museum projects. This is simply a list of organizations active on github along with a list of "featured projects" hopefully of interest to the broader community. It will attempt to be a more open replacement for the lost MuseTechCentral resource.

My aim is to eventually model this after the JQuery Plugin site, where repos can opt-in by including a manifest and a post-receive hook. For now, a list:

Institutions

• American Museum Of Natural History

  • Hack The Universe
    • From the Department of Astrophysics and the BridgeUp: STEM program. Challenge wiki with problem statements and hackathon resources at the link above. See 29 open source projects produced at the event in the Hack The Universe organization.
  • Hack The Dinos
    • The world's first dinosaur hackathon! From the Division of Paleontology and the BridgeUp: STEM program. Challenge wiki with problem statements and hackathon resources at the link above. See 25 open source projects produced at the event in the Hack The Dinos organization.
  • Hack The Stacks
    • From the Research Library and the BridgeUp: STEM program. Challenge wiki with problem statements and hackathon resources at the link above. See 18 open source projects produced at the event in the Hack The Stacks organization.

• Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum

  • palette-server
    • palette-server is a small little WSGI-compliant httpony to extract colours from an image. (blog post)
  • shannon-server
    • shannon-server is a small little WSGI-compliant httpony to calculate the shannon entropy for an image. (blog post)
  • tms-tools
    • tms-tools is a set of libraries and command-line scripts for extracting, talking to and working with TMS data. (blog post)
  • collection-wall
    • collection-wall is an early labs experiment for displaying collection objects as a waterfall-like wall of images. (blog post)
  • chromecast-signage
    • A proof-of-concept Chromecast application for web-based signage in museums.
  • objectphone
    • objectphone is a simple implementation of the collections API connected to voice and SMS via Twilio . It is written in Python and there is a Node version as well. (blog post)
  • plumbing-atkinson-server
    • A simple Flask-based HTTP-pony to dither images.
  • py-cooperhewitt-api
    • Python bindings for the Cooper Hewitt collections API.
  • py-cooperhewitt-csvtools
    • Cooper Hewitt tools for ensuring and wrangling CSV files ... because character encoding.
  • py-cooperhewitt-swatchbook
    • Cooper Hewitt tools for wrangling colours.
  • github-tools
    • Tools for working with GitHub
  • ... and more

• Indianapolis Museum of Art

  • ChicagoCodeX
    • An authoring and publishing environment for online catalogues with full scholarly apparatus
  • ... and more

• Maine Discovery Museum

  • "Our hackers are doing a lot of good work at the Maine Discovery Museum in Bangor, Maine. This is the code for the various exhibits that we've repaired or enhanced."

• Media Lab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

  • Some visualization and exhibit experience sketches.
  • Collections API
    • A screen scraper that powers scrapi.org, grabbing object information from the met's collection pages.

• Minneapolis Institute of Arts

  • griot
    • A tool for building engaging stories around objects, both in-gallery and on the web. Wordpress for friendly content entry, piped as JSON for presentation in a 'rich web app'.
  • metadrafts
    • Wordpress editorial revision workflow
  • galleries.csv
    • What's currently on view. Updated daily, diff`ed, and annotated with thumbnails.

• Museum of Life and Science

  • Arduino, Oauth2, and Wordpress

• The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

  • The Museum System API
    • A REST service for TMS providing access to art, exhibition, and artist data and images as either JSON or XML.
  • Europeana-D3
    • A D3.js visualization using the Europeana API. The same visualization is included with the TMS API above. Live example: www.europeana-d3.info

• Museum Victoria

  • describe-me
    • Describe Me is a website that asks you to write alternative text (alt-text) for images contained within Museum Victoria’s collection.
  • digital-labels
    • Web API for delivering data for museum exhibitions labels.
  • iOS and Android code for Field Guide apps.

• Science Museum of Minnesota

  • HTML5 kiosk apps
  • Kiosk control software
  • DevOps tools for deployment and systems monitoring

• Victoria and Albert Museum

  • jquery_collections_browser
    • A jQuery plugin for browsing the Victoria and Albert Museum's collections data and images via its API.
  • DigitalLabels
    • Django app to generate an interactive gallery label interface, optimised for touch screens and tablets.

• Walker Art Center

  • infolounge_walls
    • HTML5 Kiosk built on top of Swipe.js (old 2.0 branch) and Leaflet.js, this project creates a touch interface a set of zoomable images or video.
  • garden
    • Minneapolis Sculpture Garden 25th Anniversary: OpenStreetMaps data and Leaflet.
  • ... and more

• Your institution here

  • Fork this repo and submit a pull request!

Projects

• Serendip-o-matic

  • Source code for serendipitous discovery tool built at One Week ¦ One Tool open-source software-development institute that includes results from DPLA, Europeana (and now Trove). More national and topic aggregators would be ace!

• Museum APIs

  • Bits of (really quite old) PHP code used to access various museum APIs.

• The Museum System API

  • Services to access basic TMS tombstone and object package data. Services are written in .NET, clients are jQuery.

• si-scrape

  • A set of Ruby scripts to scrape information from the Smithsonian Institution's collections portal, and parse it into machine-readable JSON.