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Dreaming of AI with Hidonix

A one-hour webinar facilitated by Alex Kron, Nik Honeysett, and Jen Weavers from Balboa Park Online Collaborative, featuring Giovanna Panebianco and Jovan Harmon from Hidonix who introduced their Museum Innovation Technology (MIT) platform, an all-in-one solution for museums that includes a content management system, a mobile application for visitors, and a customer relationship management system. They demonstrated the platform's many features and functionality, including AI capabilities for digitization, cataloging, content creation, personalizing tours, and integration with other technologies like OpenAI's ChatGPT. The discussion also covered the platform's ability to manage and standardize operations across all parts of a museum, from handling changes in artwork location to providing smart parking.

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Dreaming of AI: A Crash Landing into AI in Collections Management

A 1-hour webinar hosted by BPOC's Digital Operations and Collections Information Analyst, Alex Kron, and CEO, Nik Honeysett, with guest speaker Amy Adams, Collections Information & Access Manager at the National Museum of the Royal Navy. Amy shares her experiences with implementing artificial intelligence in collections management and discusses ongoing projects related to AI classification of cultural artifacts. She highlighted the potential and limitations of these technologies, emphasizing the need for customization, data validation, and improvement of data quality. The museum also plans to continue to collaborate with academic partners and suppliers to integrate AI into their systems for entity extraction and keyword extraction, while considering the challenges of compliance with data protection regulations.

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MUNCH and AI: AI use in Conservation, Collection Management, and Audience Experiences at the MUNCH.

A one-hour-long webinar facilitated by Alex Kron and Devon Matson from Balboa Park Online Collaborative featuring Dr. Birgitte Aga, MUNCH's Head of Innovation and Research, and Dr. Irina Sandu, MUNCH's Conservation Scientist, presenting how the MUNCH museum works with AI across conservation, collection management, and in developing new audience experiences. Get an overview of MUNCH's approach to AI as Birgitte Aga, Head of Innovation and Research, introduces the museum’s AI initiatives. Followed by Irina Sandu, MUNCH's Conservation Scientist, who delves into their participation in the PERCEIVE project, demonstrating how they are reshaping color perception through the combined power of science and AI.

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Dreaming of AI: Perspectives on AI Use in Cultural Heritage

A one-hour-long webinar facilitated by Alex Kron, Nik Honeysett, and Jack Ludden from Balboa Park Online Collaborative with Jeff Steward from Harvard Art Museums. Kicking off the discussion, Jeff, Jack, and Nik shared their experiences and thoughts on using AI in their work and responded to questions and thoughts from webinar participants during the open discussion. Several webinar participants contributed to the discussion on camera, in the Q&A section, and in the webinar chat.

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Dreaming of DAM: Getty Art Collection Reboot

An hour-long webinar hosted by Alex Kron and Nik Honeysett from Balboa Park Online Collaborative features David Newbury, the Assistant Director of Software and UX from the Getty. David presents a thoughtful dive into how the Getty redesigned its online collections to improve functionality and accessibility with a more user-friendly search interface, linked data, IIIF-powered comparisons across their collection, APIs, audience identification, page designs for each of the Getty’s galleries, better exhibition templates, and highlighting connections between objects, people, exhibitions, bibliographies, galleries, blog posts, lesson plans, and more.

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Dreaming of DAM: Redesigning Newfields’ Online Collections

An hour-long webinar hosted and moderated by Alex Kron and Nik Honeysett from Balboa Park Online Collaborative. This webinar features Samantha Norling, Anne Young, and Daniel Keller from the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, who share their ongoing efforts to update their collections data and infrastructure. With a critical eye on their collection and archival portals, Samantha, Anne, and Daniel present an overview of their project's progress; grant funding, staffing, and resources that make the project possible; efforts toward Open Access; lessons learned; and diagrams depicting how their technical infrastructure and existing systems will be updated.

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Dreaming of DAM: Collections Presentations & Website Redesigns

An hour-long webinar hosted and moderated by Alex Kron from the Balboa Park Online Collaborative. This webinar features  BPOC Colleagues and consultants Jack Ludden and Eileen Willis. Jack and Eileen share their experiences and advice from working on projects for website redesigns and collection presentations. Topics range from project planning, strategic thinking, and brainstorming to content audits, design development, challenges, and opportunities.

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Dreaming of a New Collections Management System: Episode 6

An almost hour-long webinar hosted and moderated by Alex Kron and co-hosted with Nik Honeysett. The webinar features Elysian McNiff Koglmeier, Head of Growth, from Artwork Archive who shares how you can leverage Artwork Archive to increase access to your museum by bringing exhibitions online, developing programming with interactive maps, and QR codes, virtual fundraising, and collaborating remotely.