{"id":7,"date":"2013-09-09T02:35:53","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T02:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessibility.kakirine.com\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2013-09-09T04:05:15","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T04:05:15","slug":"material-and-resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/accessibility.kakirine.com\/?page_id=7","title":{"rendered":"Material and Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note: taken from Google Drive<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2013 Our Website
\nhttp:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2013 Regarding Accessibility
\nhttp:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/visit\/accessibility<\/a> – useful information for planning your visit if you have a disability.
\nhttp:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/events\/programs\/programs-for-visitors-with-disabilities<\/a> – Programs for visitors with disabilities
\nhttp:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/visit\/plan-your-visit\/group-visits\/disabilities<\/a> – for coordinating Group visits<\/p>\n

Research Tools on the Website<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013 Libraries
\nhttp:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/research\/libraries-and-study-centers<\/a> – links to the Met\u2019s various libraries.
\nThe Watson Library is the primary entry point for accessing the Met\u2019s vast collection of physical, print resources. \u00a0Advanced free registration required for access: http:\/\/library.metmuseum.org\/selfreg<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2013 MetPublications
\nhttp:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/research\/metpublications
\n<\/a>Access to Purchase, Read online, or download for free, the Met\u2019s entire back catalog of publications<\/p>\n

Out-of-print publications are available for free download.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u2013 The Timeline of Art History
\nhttp:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/toah\/
\n<\/a>Thematic Essays, Timelines, and Maps. Uses a subset of all Met objects. Also has a good controlled vocabulary, and lots of hand-indexing has created a quality data set.<\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a082nd and 5th<\/p>\n

http:\/\/82nd-and-fifth.metmuseum.org\/
\n<\/a>A series of audo\/video episodes, where each one is a single curator talking about a single important work. Very personal and high-production value presentations.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Connections
\nhttp:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/connections\/
\n<\/a>Various Met staff talking about themes in art that are of personal interest to them. These are not all curators speaking, but staff from all parts of the museum. The goal here is to show a personal, perspective on the collection, from people that work at the Met.<\/p>\n

\u2013 The Collections
\nhttp:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/collections\/search-the-collections
\n<\/a>This is the (almost) All of the Met\u2019s objects, online and searchable. There are various faceted search options available for digging around. For a more machine-friendly approach to data access, see http:\/\/scrapi.org<\/a>
\n\u2013 Individual Object Pages
\nExample: http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/Collections\/search-the-collections\/83340<\/a><\/p>\n