Museum and Art Galleries in the United States

This is a repackaged open source software product wherein additional charges apply for a pre-hardened AMI with automated startup. Omeka S - Digital Collections. Self-hosted on AWS EC2 with Docker.

DSLM Artes is a living curatorial intelligence platform that supports curators, museums, galleries, collectors, and cultural institutions in selecting, contextualizing, and critically analyzing artworks. It organizes collections, builds well grounded exhibition narratives, and maps movements, periods, styles, and connections between artists with depth and rigor.

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is an international network and data infrastructure funded by the world's governments providing global data that document the occurrence of species. GBIF currently integrates datasets documenting over 1.6 billion species occurrences, growing daily. The GBIF occurrence dataset combines data from a wide array of sources including specimen-related data from natural history museums, observations from citizen science networks and environment recording schemes. While these data are constantly changing at GBIF.org, periodic snapshots are taken and made available on AWS.

The Smithsonian’s mission is the "increase and diffusion of knowledge" and has been collecting since 1846. The Smithsonian, through its efforts to digitize its multidisciplinary collections, has created millions of digital assets and related metadata describing the collection objects. On February 25th, 2020, the Smithsonian released over 2.8 million CC0 interdisciplinary 2-D and 3-D images, related metadata, and additionally, research data from researches across the Smithsonian. The 2.8 million "open access" collections are a subset of the Smithsonian’s 155 million objects, 2.1 million library volumes and 156,000 cubic feet of archival collections held in 19 museums, 9 research centers, libraries, archives and the National Zoo. Digitization of collections is ongoing.