VanGoYourself

VanGoYourself : The Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci

VanGoYourself : The Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci

La plateforme VanGoYourself permet à toute personne, partout dans le monde, de recréer des œuvres d’art de la Grande Région. Environ 50 peintures de plus de dix collections de sept pays européens peuvent être reproduites sur VanGoYourself.

Les meilleures récréations ont été publiées sur le site web www.vangoyourself.com et toutes les soumissions peuvent être consultées sur vangoyourself.tumblr.com.

VanGoYourself est une innovation Europeana et est le fruit d’une collaboration européenne dans le cadre du projet « Europeana Creative ». Le concept de VanGoYourself est né de la volonté de deux organisations à but non lucratif : Culture24 en Angleterre et Plurio.net au Luxembourg. Toutes deux sont engagées pour étendre la visibilité des arts et de la culture.

Culturomics

Cover of the Science Magazine January 14, 2011

Cover of the Science Magazine January 14, 2011

Culturomics is a form of computational lexicology that studies human behavior and cultural trends through the quantitative analysis of digitized texts. The term was coined in December 2010 in a Science article called Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books. The paper was published by a team spanning the Cultural Observatory at Harvard, Encyclopaedia Britannica, the American Heritage Dictionary and Google. At the same time was launched the world’s first real-time culturomic browser on Google Labs.

The Cultural Observatory at Harvard is working to enable the quantitative study of human culture across societies and across centuries. This is done in three ways:

  • Creation of massive datasets relevant to human culture
  • Use of these datasets to power new types of analysis
  • Development of tools that enable researchers and the general public to query the data

The Cultural Observatory is directed by Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel who helped create the Google Labs project Google N-gram Viewer. The Observatory is hosted at Harvard’s Laboratory-at-Large.

Logo of the Science Hall of Fame

Logo of the Science Hall of Fame

Links to additional informations about Culturomics and related topics are provided in the following list :

Europeana : think culture

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Europeana was launched in 2008, with the goal of making Europe’s cultural and scientific heritage accessible to the public. The project is funded by the European Commission. It is based in the National Library of the Netherlands, the Koninklijke Bibliotheek. Over 180 heritage and knowledge organisations and IT experts across Europe support Europeana regarding technical and usability issues. Europeana builds on the experience of The European Library, which is a service of the Conference of European National Librarians.

The Europeana website provides efficient tools for searching, FAQ’s, Help’s, a ThoughtLab, a Blog, Newsletters and a personal space My Europeana to save your favourite items and searches, and to add tags. The content is available in most eurpean languages.

An associated project to Europeana is the Public Domain Calculator.

Wikipedia : Art & Culture

The following Wikipedia portals are useful for the visual and plastic arts :

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Arts Arts
Art contemporain
Culture Culture
Visual Art
Computer Graphics
Graffiti
Photography Photographie
Peinture

The following categories are related to visual and plastic arts :

The major topics are :

The lists are :

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WikiMedia associated Visual Arts :