(By Tord Nilsen, Senior Advisor National Museum Norway) In our Semantic Search prototype, we have experienced some issues where the OpenAI GPT-4 Vision API sometimes will misinterpret images with low resolution. To avoid higher API costs than necessary, we have been sending images with a resolution of 256×256 pixels, but have observed that the API… Continue reading Finding the right resolution for image analysis
Author: Tord Nilsen
Hello, I'm Tord Nilsen, currently serving as a Senior Advisor at Nasjonalmuseet with a focus on digital innovation and artificial intelligence (AI).
My professional journey is a tapestry woven with strands of coding, design, and a profound understanding of human behavior, nurtured during my time as a personal assistant.
I am deeply passionate about merging technology with empathy to transform the way we experience cultural heritage. At Nasjonalmuseet, I lead initiatives that leverage AI to make our museum collections more accessible and engaging.
I'm particularly involved in developing open APIs and creating digital experiences that are centered around the user.
My role is not just about preserving our cultural legacy; it's about bringing it to life in the digital realm, ensuring that it resonates with and is accessible to everyone.
Semantic search in an online collection
We are prototyping a new semantic search feature for Nasjonalmuseet’s online collection. This search method focuses on context and meaning within the image, and offers a different approach to exploring the objects in our collection from the conventional method of matching the user’s query against terms in our collection management system. In this prototyping stage… Continue reading Semantic search in an online collection
50,000 Objects Digitized in Our Online Collection
Celebrating a Major Milestone: 50,000 Objects Digitized in Our Online Collection! We are thrilled to announce that we have just reached a major milestone in our digital collection journey – the digitization of our 50,000th object! This is a momentous occasion for us, and we are proud to have achieved this significant goal in our… Continue reading 50,000 Objects Digitized in Our Online Collection
Scrollytelling
Embracing Scrollytelling: A Fresh Approach to Digital Storytelling at the National Museum At the National Museum, we are always on the lookout for innovative ways to enhance our digital presence and make our collections more accessible and engaging for our diverse audience. To this end, we are excited to introduce a fresh approach to digital… Continue reading Scrollytelling
Embedded Gigapixel viewer
Sometimes we need to use components outside of our CMS environment. Iframes let us build user experiences into embeddable components, which allows users to interact with other components without being redirected.
Exhibit – Interactive storytelling
Exhibit is our new tool for storytelling and has a range of presentation modes, including scrollytelling, slideshows, kiosks and quizzes. Together with our gigapixels we think Exhibit could be a valuable tool for creating engagement and promoting our online digital collection. This is an example page on different configurations. Embedded version with slides Gigapizel with scroll… Continue reading Exhibit – Interactive storytelling
Gigapixel photos
Nasjonalmuseet’s Photography section has started taking high-resolution photos, aka Gigapixel photos. The easel was constructed in collaboration with Trosterud Mekaniske and Siemens Norge. The easel has motors that move the painting on the x and y-axis while a Hasselblad with Multishot settings takes photos in an overlapping pattern. A painting with dimensions 50x60cm contains around… Continue reading Gigapixel photos
Nasjonalmuseets API
We are excited to annonce our API which provides faster and more comprehensive access to our collection. The API design is packed with features intended to make the use of our collection delightful. We are rapidly developing new features for example usage of a IIIF imageserver with manifests etc Read more about our API and… Continue reading Nasjonalmuseets API