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A great piece of hypertext from Aaron on the purpose of museums, the Copper Hewitt Pen, and matter battles.
history is time breaking up with itself
A great piece of hypertext from Aaron on the purpose of museums, the Copper Hewitt Pen, and matter battles.
Remember Aaron’s dConstruct talk? Well, the Atlantic has more details of his work at the Cooper Hewitt museum in this wide-ranging piece that investigates the role of museums, the value of APIs, and the importance of permanent URLs.
As I was leaving, Cope recounted how, early on, a curator had asked him why the collections website and API existed. Why are you doing this?
His retrospective answer wasn’t about scholarship or data-mining or huge interactive exhibits. It was about the web.
I find this incredibly inspiring.