My presentation for Museum Connections 2018 in Paris

1. How I learned to
stop worrying
and love an app
Museum Connections
17-01-2018

2. SMK - Statens Museum for
Kunst (the national gallery
of Denmark)
Established late 1800s
In central Copenhagen
260.000 works of art
spanning 700 years
170 employees
75% government funded
400.000 visitors/year

3. Onsite Online

4. …a digital platform to make SMK’s
collection freely and flexibly accessible
to everyone
SMK OPEN
API

5. Human readable Machine readable

6. Vizgu

9. Pros
Pleasant interaction
Easily understood
Puts processing on the
server
Cons
Needs to be downloaded
and installed

11. 8.527
Positive scans

14. App development
turned upside down

15. < 150 hours

16. Experimentation

17. SMK
@smkmuseum
smk.dk
SMK Open
smk.dk/smkopen
Jonas Heide Smith
jhs@smk.dk
@jonassmith