Our second Theme Day Haloo Akseli – Tarvaspää Calling! took place on Sunday March 9th at Gallen-Kallela Museum. Thank you to all the speakers, panelists and everyone who participated!
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The Theme Day ’Akseli Gallen-Kallela and His Artist Friends’ took place on Sunday February 9th at Gallen-Kallela Museum. A day full of action and with lots of visitors – thanks to everyone who participated!
P.S. We are already looking forward to the next Theme Day on March 9th. Save the date!
Continue reading First Community Theme Day 9.2. @Gallen-Kallela Museum
Haloo Akseli! web archive is now online. Welcome to browse!
Ida Aalberg, Albert Edelfelt, Karl Fazer – Akseli Gallen-Kallelan puhelinmuistio 1920-luvulta on täynnä tuttuja nimiä. Kurkkaa sen sivuille ja tule mukaan kokoamaan Gallen-Kallelan digitaalista arkistoa Gallen-Kallelan Museon tapahtumapäivään 9. helmikuuta!
Yhteistyössä Gallen-Kallelan Museon kanssa, Aalto-yliopiston Medialaboratorio rakentaa open access –periaatteella toimivan digitaalisen arkiston pohjaten Gallen-Kallelan alkuperäiseen puhelinmuistioon ja sen sisältämiin kontakteihin. Arkisto tuo yhteen pieniä, arkipäiväisiä informaation palasia liittyen Akseli Gallen-Kallelaan ja tämän tuttavapiiriin. Se sisältää niin valokuvia, tekstejä ja sitaatteja museon arkistosta – kuin myös kuvia, postikortteja, tarinoita ja muistoja, joita yleisö on tervetullut tuomaan mukaan tapahtumapäivänä.
Ainutlaatuisena osana tapahtumaa toimii projektissa avustava skannausrobotti. Robotti on kehitetty Project Gado –hankkeen yhteydessä John Hopkins Universityssa, Baltimoressa, ja sen kehittely jatkuu Aalto-yliopistossa Medialaboratorion ja Tietojenkäsittelytieteen laitoksen yhteistyönä. Gallen-Kallelan museon tapahtumapäivässä robotti auttaa historiallisen arkistomateriaalin digitoinnissa ja sen lisäämisessä digitaaliseen arkistoon, maailmanlaajuisen yleisön saataville.
Tervetuloa mukaan kokoamaan digitaalista arkistoa!
Akseli Gallen-Kallela ja naapuruston taiteilijatoverit –tapahtumapäivä
lauantaina 9.2.2014 klo 11-17 Gallen-Kallelan museossa.
Gallen-Kallelan Museo Gallen-Kallelan tie 27, Espoo Puh. (09) 849 2340 www.gallen-kallela.fi
http://sysrep.sites2.aalto.fi/digglam/ http://www.gallen-kallela.fi
Lisätietoa:
Puh. 041 504 7788, Anna Virtanen anna.virtanen@aalto.fi
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Ida Aalberg, Albert Edelfelt, Karl Fazer – Akseli Gallen-Kallela’s phone book from the 1920s is full of familiar names. See who’s in it, and join in the making of Gallen-Kallela’s Virtual Phone Book on the Theme Day February 9th at Gallen-Kallela Museum!
Aalto University’s Media Lab in collaboration with Gallen-Kallela Museum are building an open access digital archive based on Gallen-Kallela’s contacts in his original phone book. The archive will hold information in the form of micro-histories, connected to Gallen-Kallela and his network of friends, colleagues and acquaintances. This includes photos, texts and quotes from the museum’s archives – as well as pictures, postcards, memories and stories that the visitors of the Theme Day are invited to bring in.
A unique part of this event will be the application of an Open Source autonomous scanning robot initially developed by Project Gado of John Hopkins University Baltimore, currently under development in the Media Lab Helsinki and the Department of Computer Science of Aalto University. The robot will assist in the digitization of the historical material, adding it to the digital archive and making it available for a worldwide audience.
Welcome to join in and participate in the making of the archive!
Akseli Gallen-Kallela & His Artist Friends Theme Day on February 9th at 11-17
in Gallen-Kallela Museum, Tarvaspää.
Gallen-Kallela Museum
Gallen-Kallelan tie 27, Espoo
Phone (09) 849 2340
www.gallen-kallela.fi
For more information:
Phone 041 504 7788, Anna Virtanen
anna.virtanen@aalto.fi
digGLAM Project was presented at Aalto University – Media Lab Helsinki Demo Day in Otaniemi, on 17th December. The presentation included the main points of the project:
The project consist of three main parts: it brings together Gallen-Kallela Museum’s archives, the community around the museum, and the digGLAM Assistant Robot.
The basic workflow begins from the collections and gathered material of the museum as well as of the community. With the help of digGLAM Robot Assistant, the material will be scanned at the Theme Days and added to the Digital Archive. The Digital Archive in turn gives back to the museum and the community.
Here presented the original Phone Book of Gallen-Kallela that functions as material and a starting point for the project. By its side a sketch for the interface of the Digital Archive.
Welcome everyone to the Theme Days on 9th February & 9th March 2014!
The casing of the digGLAM Robot Assistant has now been realized according to the design by Verna Kaipainen. The robot is in working order and ready for the Theme Days!
We would like to welcome you all to our First Demo Day on Tuesday 17.12. in our new Media Lab premises at Miestentie 3, Otaniemi.
The entire days program is scheduled from 13.00 to 17.00: http://mlab.taik.fi/news/2013/12/12/2013-xmas-demo-day-and-mlab-change-of-address/#more-739
The digGLAM project has a Stage presentation at 14.17. We also have a Floor spot, where we will be displaying the Project and digGLAM robot assistant.
Hope to see you there!
We are looking for a Graphics / Web Designer (From within Aalto) to design graphics and implement a Digital Museum Archive (using WordPress). Preliminary sketches and design of the proposed Interface has a been under development between Sys.Rep. & the Museum and these would have to be adapted for the archive.
Funds available are for 40 hours, one-time payment. The work needs to begin in early to mid-December 2013 and the launch date of the Digital Archive is in late January 2014.
Please email CV + Related Work samples (max. 3) / Links to: samir.bhowmik(at)aalto.fi by 16.12.2013. Decision will be made before the Christmas Break.
Verna Kaipainen’s proposition has been chosen to be the final design for the digGLAM Museum Robot. The task of the competition was to design an outer casing of the Robot arm and associated components and a portable deployment platform for the Robotic Scanner.
In her proposition Kaipainen emphasizes feasibility and simplicity of the design and aims at highlighting the most important parts of the project as a whole.
Digitizing Small Museums (GLAMs) into Culture Commons by Local Communities (digGLAM) is short-term Aalto Media Factory (AMF) funded project at the Systems of Representation – Media Lab of Aalto ARTS – Aalto University Helsinki Finland. This Project is an attempt to help digitize the collections of small GLAMs using an Open Source autonomous scanning Robot initially developed by Project Gado – John Hopkins University Baltimore (see the technology here: Gado2) and now currently under development in the Media Lab Helsinki along with the Department of Computer Science – Aalto University. Currently we are conducting an Open Industrial Competition to design the outer casing and a portable deployment unit.
The primary aim of digGLAM is to help small galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAMs) in Finland with a small staff and limited funds to digitize their collections with participation from their user communities. There are three elements to this: firstly, developing Thematic Open Days at the Museum that focus around relevant themes based around the Museum’s Collections. Secondly using Open Source softwares and robotic scanners to automate the processes, showcase the efforts of the Museum. Finally letting the Local Community of the Museum (Crowdsourcing) to help digitize and tag the thematic collections. The digitized material from these Theme Days will be directly fed into a Museum Archive connected to the National Archives that will be available under a Creative Commons License. The interface of this new Archive is currently also under development.
Project Team
Samir Bhowmik / Project Coordinator – Doctoral Researcher – Media Lab, Aalto ARTS
Lily Diaz / Head of Research – Media Lab & digGLAM Project, Aalto ARTS
Agustí Pellicer / Research Assistant – Aalto Science CSE
James Reilly / Research Fellow – Aalto Science CSE
Anna Virtanen / Research Assistant – Systems of Representation – Media Lab, Aalto ARTS
Antti Ylä-Jääski / Professor – Aalto Science CSE
Verna Kaipainen / Industrial Design – Department of Design, Aalto ARTS
Palash Mukhopadhyaya / User Interface Design – New Media, Aalto ARTS