This document discusses various topics related to the Rijksmuseum's digital collections and strategies, including self portraits from WWII, crowd sourcing projects with Heineken, the potential for computers to enhance access to art and history but also the challenges of digitization including legal issues and gaps in historical knowledge. It also references specific artworks in the collection like a Still Life by Balthasar van der Ast and a letter reading scene by Johannes Vermeer.

1. LizzyJongma
NetworkWarCollectionsWWII
Cor Teeseling, 8 self portraits, 1942
Collection Rijksmuseum
More than a pretty picture

3. Photo: Gijsbert van der Wal

4. In the beginning

6. Still Life with Fruit and Flowers, Balthasar van der Ast, 1620 - 1621

10. Faces of the Rijksmuseum App
[2012, AB_C Media]

11. Crowd hacking

13. Heineken meets Rijksstudio

14. Taste for more

19. This is a machine’s world

21. Woman Reading a Letter,
Johannes Vermeer, c. 1663

29. Man vs Machine

31. Machine matching Mistakes

32. Rijksmuseum Paintings on Wikimedia

36. All dressed up and nowhere to go

37. International Court of Justice
Photo Bureau ANEFO

42. Art and history matter
Digital is the new book (and exhibition)
Users first, users involved
Computers are users too
Computers can do really cool stuff
As humans we have to make applications good,
beautiful and simple
We need big data, we need digital data, digitized
resources
We have to fight lawyers, digital gaps and lack of
historical knowledge