![]() With so many artworks and artifacts already up, and surely much more to come, the question becomes how best to navigate not just one of these collections, but all of them.Īrtvee constitutes one answer to this question. In recent years, they’ve gotten quite serious indeed about digitizing their holdings and making those digitizations freely available to the world, uploading them by the thousand, even by the million. So are the collections of more than 40 other international institutions, from the New York Public Library and the Art Institute of Chicago to the Rijksmuseum and Paris Musées, many of which had little or no online presence back in the early 1990s. Today, the Smithsonian’s impressive online collections are accessible through Artvee, a new search engine for downloadable high-resolution, public domain artworks. And the Smithsonian, as we’ve featured here on Open Culture, is still there - now with much more online than gems. ![]() ![]() There was something about the internet that was like catnip.” In the intervening decades, the technology powering the internet has only improved, and we’ve all felt how greatly that catnip-like effect has intensified. Those pages were slow to load and crashed as often as they worked.” But those who witnessed this technology in action would invariably “get out of their chairs their eyes like saucers, and they would approach the keyboard. “In 1993, there were only a handful of Web sites you could access, such as the Smithsonian’s exhibit of gems. ![]() Dilbert creator Scott Adams once wrote of his early experiences introducing the World Wide Web to others. ![]()
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