The cool kids at the Brooklyn Museum have developed a way to share their art collection with Facebook users through a new application called ArtShare. According to Shelley Bernstein, they will share the application with other institutions.
I added the app on my Facebook page and already have 2 pieces of art from their collection rotating on my profile. Clicking on the image of “Knowledge Is Power” takes you to the Brooklyn Museum’s collections page with more detailed information about the work. I like experiment with art sharing on a social networking site, and I’ll be interested to hear if other museums use it and if site traffic increases from Facebook links.
For this application to be robust, though, you have to start with some online collection objects before sharing them. Perhaps, items uploaded to anOmeka-based system can be shared through a similar type of application in the future.