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The American Art Collaborative (AAC) is a consortium of fourteen U.S. institutions—thirteen museums and one archive—working together to create a critical mass of Linked Open Data (LOD) around the subject of the visual arts in America. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has been a founding member of the AAC since the consortium’s formal establishment in 2014. For a full list of participating institutions, educational briefings, presentations, and general project background, visit AmericanArtCollaborative. org. Thanks to a leadership grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (awarded to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art) and generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (awarded to AAC partner Smithsonian American Art Museum on behalf of AAC), the AAC has converted over 230,000 museum object records to LOD.
In early June, Winston-Salem’s Reynolda House Museum of American Art will be launching their new app, Reynolda Revealed. Designed to bring the museum’s art, history and its setting into the palm of every visitor’s hand, the app incorporates video, archival audio, and photographs to deliver a narrative of the R. J. Reynolds and their estate. The app provides information never publicly shared which has been taken from the Reynolds family archives.
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